HTML - SPAN and DIV Tags

23 July 2021

• The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.
• The <span> tag provides no visual change by itself.
• The <span> tag provides a way to add a hook to a part of a text or a part of a document.

<span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold">blue </span>

• The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document.
• The <div> tag is used to group block-elements to format them with CSS.

<div style="color:#0000FF">

<h3>This is a heading</h3>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</div>

The <span> and <div> tags have no required attributes, but the three that are the most useful are:

• style
• class
• id

You can make a <span> or <div> point to a style sheet using id or class.

Source: Montgomery College Java Bootcamp (canvas)