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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Type Selectors

Hamzah Ali
Hamzah Ali
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Posted by Hamzah Ali
Hamzah Ali
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Span tag

Why to use span tag?

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Spencer Merritt
Spencer Merritt
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Spencer Merritt
Spencer Merritt
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The Span tag is usually used to modify a specific item within another element. For example change color with in a sentence. 

<h1> This sentence has the color black but I want 
<span> this part to be green </span>
 I hope this makes sense. </h1>

h1 {color:black;}
span {color:green;}
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Dylan Grey Aksomitas
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I like to think of span tags as the inline equivalent to a div element .