[Eclug] OT: What is up with the span tag

At 09:44 PM 8/17/2006, you wrote:
>a <P> would be a block level elemment, as would a <table> or <div>.
>a <b>, <font>, <image>, <input type=...>, and so on, like <span> are not 
>block level, they are inline.
>
>Things like centering only apply to block level elements, so nothing will 
>happen when you apply them to something inline.
>
>The difference is that a block level element starts a new line when it is 
>rendered, whereas an inline element just continues on the same line.
>
>for instance, using dhtml, you can have
>thing.style.display='none';   --> makes the thing invisible on the page, 
>its still there, it just doesn't take up any space.
>thing.style.display='block'; --> makes the thing visible, and it get 
>seperates out into its own line/paragraph
>thing.style.display='inline'; --> makes the things visible, and it gets 
>displayed in place amongst whatever text/things are also on that line.
>
>Randall


         Ah yes, yes, yes. This now makes all much more sense than it did 
two days ago. I also figured out why Amaya used the span tag. When I 
selected a line it did select the content of that line, but not the 
paragraph. I have to press F2 to select one parent level up. After doing 
that and selecting the class for the applicable style, Amaya put in the 
style reference for the p tag and BAM! everything is centered.

         Thank you very very much for spraying some WD40 in my brain. 
Ahhhhh, it works much better now.

         Uh, and thanks Dave for the link. I will use it on my AIEEEE style 
sheets. LOL.


                         Have a good weekend,

                                 David K.