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Format Text with Spans .........................................

2 Within the body text, type

<span> before a word or

words to which you want to

apply a style.

3 After the text, type

</span>.

1 In your editor, open a page

that contains an embedded

style sheet.

Format Text with Spans

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SS formatting is applied to text by altering the appearance of the nearest HTML tag containing

the text. For most work on your page, you can simply style whatever tag already exists, such

as the paragraph. However, there will be times when you need to style a group of words or letters

within a bigger block, and in particular style a portion of text that has no other tag around it. The

tag was added to HTML to solve this issue. The tag exists solely to provide you with an

inline element to which you can apply styles.

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