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HTML

Posted by Oliver Williams
Oliver Williams
6,278 Points

What tag for text that isn't a paragraph or a title

If I have a short bit of text that isn't a title so shouldn't be a h1-h6 and isn't a paragraph, what HTML tag should it use?

3 Answers

Adam Ryde
Adam Ryde
5,222 Points
Adam Ryde
Adam Ryde
5,222 Points

<span></span>

Give that a try

Oliver Williams
Oliver Williams
6,278 Points
Oliver Williams
Oliver Williams
6,278 Points

Thanks. Seeing as span is semantically meaningless, if I want the text to be block level, should I just stick the text inside a div element instead?

Adam Ryde
Adam Ryde
5,222 Points
Adam Ryde
Adam Ryde
5,222 Points

In fairness mate I am relatively new to html and css myself so I may not be the best person to ask. But I would use a div to separate certain parts of code. So if your span element is something completely different to what ever other blocks of code you have use a div and give it an id or class thats relevent to what it is. Sorry if thats not much help buddy.