On Wikipedia, HTML <
span>...</span>
elements are used to group logically related text. They allow:
{{
Lang}}
templates, not with manual span markup)<s>
and the now-deprecated <strike>
, which would otherwise be used as workarounds, but are less suitable.{{
Anchor}}
template.Almost all HTML tags that are allowed in Wikipedia permit inline CSS styles.
Span tags were enabled in
MediaWiki on December 23, 2004. Polls were held in May and August 2004 on whether the English Wikipedia should enable them. The
results were equally split between supporting and opposing the addition of these tags. In December, the earlier objections that this would be a semantically void element were deemed to be no longer applicable since MediaWiki now has a way to add to the global stylesheets in the wiki (at least for the main skins). The addition of <span>
to the
whitelist was
announced, following no general objection amongst
developers.
On Wikipedia, HTML <
span>...</span>
elements are used to group logically related text. They allow:
{{
Lang}}
templates, not with manual span markup)<s>
and the now-deprecated <strike>
, which would otherwise be used as workarounds, but are less suitable.{{
Anchor}}
template.Almost all HTML tags that are allowed in Wikipedia permit inline CSS styles.
Span tags were enabled in
MediaWiki on December 23, 2004. Polls were held in May and August 2004 on whether the English Wikipedia should enable them. The
results were equally split between supporting and opposing the addition of these tags. In December, the earlier objections that this would be a semantically void element were deemed to be no longer applicable since MediaWiki now has a way to add to the global stylesheets in the wiki (at least for the main skins). The addition of <span>
to the
whitelist was
announced, following no general objection amongst
developers.