Can you have a span within a span

Question

Here is the story  I m using SWFObject to insert a Flash object into my page  The embedding eats my span  So  I lose all my CSS for it  I was thinking of moving all of the CSS to the parent so I don t lose my CSS styles when the Flash appears    I have tried using a span within a span  but I don t think it s working  Is there a reason for this  I don t understand why you could have div within a div but not a span within a span   Does it have to do with spans being inline

User · Answer

Yes  You can have a span within a span  Your problem stems from something else

User · Answer

HTML4 specification states that      Inline elements may contain only data and other inline elements   Span is an inline element  therefore having span inside span is valid  There s a related question  Can  lt span gt  tags have any type of tags inside them  which makes it completely clear   HTML5 specification  including the most current draft of HTML 5 3 dated November 16  2017  changes terminology  but it s still perfectly valid to place span inside another span

[html] Can you have a <span> within a <span>?

Examples related to html

Examples related to css