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DMJ
What is the difference between these two tags?
Jul 20 '05 #1
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de*****@angus.a c.uk (DMJ) writes:
What is the difference between these two tags?


<span> is inline (like <em>, <a>, etc), <div> is block (like <p>, <li>, etc).

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Chris
Jul 20 '05 #2
de*****@angus.a c.uk (DMJ) wrote in news:3c******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com:
What is the difference between these two tags?


It would have been quicker if you had consulted Google:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...ring.*&num=100

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Kayode Okeyode
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Jul 20 '05 #3
In comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, kayodeok wrote:
It would have been quicker if you had consulted Google:

Only if the OP wanted to see the same question asked over and over, with
little in the way of helpful replies.
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Nige

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Jul 20 '05 #4
In article <Xn************ *************@1 30.133.1.4> in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, kayodeok
<ne*********@bt openworld.com> wrote:
de*****@angus. ac.uk (DMJ) wrote in news:3c******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com:
What is the difference between these two tags?


It would have been quicker if you had consulted Google:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...ring.*&num=100


or even (gasp!) the spec.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
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HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Jul 20 '05 #5

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