DIV/SPAN

Quoting the comment I left at Simon Willison's weblog concerning the difference between DIV and SPAN tags:

On a pretty simplistic level, DIV is meant for marking up pieces (chunks/divisions) of code or text, while SPAN is meant for marking phrases, usually within text paragraphs or sentences. For example:

[snip]

<div class="Examples">
    <p>This is a paragraph of text. To mark up a book title, use the span tag. For example, <span class="book title">Good Omens</span> by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet.</p>
    <p>This is another paragraph, just to show that it's appropriate to have multiple paragraphs, and other block elements, within a single div tag.</p>
</div>

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last updated 2003.5.30 Micah Sittig

Double Classes

Jim asked why I used two classes on my book title. I answered there, but I'll illustrate here. By including CSS code like the following:

I can decorate both book and movie titles in similar and different ways. For example, the Bible is a famous book, and Gone With The Wind is a famous movie.

last updated 2003.5.31 Micah Sittig