Why span elements are used

Question

Describe div elements

Answer 1

Sainul Abid
Span is an inline element and is usually used to style some part of text in a para or sentence in a certain way say that you want to highlight or to make it standout.

For Ex: I want to make the word 'hello' to have green color, yellow background and a different font size.

HTML
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<p>
<span id="hello">Hello</span> This is some text. And here is some other text.
</p>
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CSS
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#hello{
color: green;
background: yellow;
font-size: 20px;
}
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Answer 2

span is inline element that is used to make the element align next to each other unlike div element which starts from new line