9.2. The
Span Element
The
<span> element is used in the same way as the <div>
element. The difference is that the <div> element is used to
enclose one or more block elements (e.g. <p>, <h1> to
<h6>, <table>, etc) while the <span> element is
used to enclose a section (e.g. some text) in a block element.
The
usage of the <span> tag is illustrated in the following two
XHTML MP/WAP CSS examples. Both XHTML MP/WAP CSS examples give the
same result in mobile phone browsers. The first example and the
second example demonstrate the use of the <span> tag with the
class attribute and the style attribute respectively.
(spanEg1.xhtml)
<?xml
version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style
type="text/css">
.wcss_class {
color:
blue
}
</style>
<title>WCSS
Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><span
class="wcss_class">Table of
Contents</span></h1>
<hr/>
<p>
<span
class="wcss_class">WCSS Tutorial</span>
Chapter 1<br/>
<span class="wcss_class">WCSS
Tutorial</span> Chapter 2<br/>
<span
class="wcss_class">WCSS Tutorial</span>
Chapter 3<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
(spanEg2.xhtml)
<?xml
version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>WCSS
Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><span
style="color: blue">Table of
Contents</span></h1>
<hr/>
<p>
<span
style="color: blue">WCSS Tutorial</span>
Chapter 1<br/>
<span style="color:
blue">WCSS Tutorial</span> Chapter
2<br/>
<span style="color: blue">WCSS
Tutorial</span> Chapter
3<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
In
the above two examples, the WCSS style rule "color: blue"
is applied to the text enclosed in the <span></span>
tags. The text outside <span></span> tags remains in its
default color, that is black. The screenshots of the examples in
mobile phone browsers are shown here:
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Sony
Ericsson T610
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Nokia
Mobile Browser 4.0
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