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shapper

2007-03-30, 7:17 pm

Hello,

Can I have <h1>, <p> and <span> tags inside a <p> tag?

What should be the best tag to encapsulate all other tags? <div>?
What are the limitations of using <p> and <span> in this?

Where can I find some information on this?

Thanks,
Miguel

Els

2007-03-30, 7:17 pm

shapper wrote:

> Can I have <h1>, <p> and <span> tags inside a <p> tag?

<span>: yes. <h1> and <p>: no.

> What should be the best tag to encapsulate all other tags? <div>?

Depends why you want to do that. <body> is really all you need, but if
you need more divisions, than <div> is good, yes.

> What are the limitations of using <p> and <span> in this?

<p> is the element you use for a paragraph, and <span> is what you use
if you want to apply some style rules for no particular important
reason to a portion of text inside a paragraph. If you'd want to make
some text bold, think about the reason - do you want to emphasize it?
Use <em>.

> Where can I find some information on this?

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

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Andy Dingley

2007-03-30, 7:17 pm

On 30 Mar, 16:42, "shapper" <mdmo...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
> Can I have <h1>, <p> and <span> tags inside a <p> tag?

No. You can have <span> in there, but not the others. You could put
all three inside a <div>

> What should be the best tag to encapsulate all other tags? <div>?

Yes, but I start to get worried making recommendations like this
blindly, without seeing what you're trying to achieve!

> What are the limitations of using <p> and <span> in this?
>
> Where can I find some information on this?

It's not easy to find information on this. Most authoring guides
ignore it, or get it wrong.
It's often discussed in here though - search for "block" and "inline"

The definition is from the HTML DTD (which is hard to read at first)
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/dtd.html

Some explanation has been posted in the past
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/co...5d232d58d400ff1

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/al...fa65f912f6e8458