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👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Nkeiru

how do I create a space between an icon and a text in html

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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To create a space between an icon and text in HTML, you can use the &nbsp; or the <span> tag with CSS.

Here is an example using &nbsp;:

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<h1><i class="fa fa-globe"></i>&nbsp;Hello World</h1>

This will create a space between the icon and text, using a non-breaking space.

Here is an example using the <span> tag with CSS:

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<h1><i class="fa fa-globe"></i><span style="padding-left: 10px;">Hello World</span></h1>

This will use the <span> tag with padding-left CSS property to insert the desired space. You can adjust the padding size to fit your needs.

Note: The fa fa-globe is an example of an icon class from the Font Awesome library. You can replace it with any other icon class if using Font Awesome or another icon library. If you are not using any library, replace it with the name of the icon file.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Alana

How do I move three span elements on top of each other with advanced CSS positioning?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 4.58 seconds

To position three elements on top of each other, you can use CSS position property along with top, right, bottom, and left properties. Here is an example code snippet in CSS:

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span { position: absolute; } span:nth-child(1) { top: 0; } span:nth-child(2) { top: 30px; } span:nth-child(3) { top: 60px; }

In this example:

  • Each span element is set to position: absolute.
  • top property is used to set the distance from the top edge of the containing block to the top margin edge of the element.
  • span:nth-child(1) refers to the first spanelement and it's given top:0 which means it's positioned at the top of the container.
  • span:nth-child(2) has top:30px which meaning it's positioned 30 pixels below the first one.
  • span:nth-child(3) has top:60px which means it's positioned 60 pixels below the first one.

Here is an example of three span elements positioned on top of each other using Advanced CSS Positioning:

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<div> <span>First</span> <span>Second</span> <span>Third</span> </div>
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div { position: relative; height: 100px; border: 1px solid black; } span { position: absolute; left: 0; width: 100%; text-align: center; } span:nth-child(1) { top: 0; } span:nth-child(2) { top: 30px; } span:nth-child(3) { top: 60px; }

You can view this example on Codepen here.

👩‍💻 Why make the span element absolute and not just put each element on top slightly under the other?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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By making the span elements position: absolute, they are positioned relative to the first positioned ancestor element i.e. it's not dependent on the other siblings (elements) in the normal flow. This means that you can position the child elements independently of each other and other elements.

If we use other positioning methods like relative, static, or sticky, the elements would still occupy their original position in the normal flow, which would affect the height and layout of the parent container.

Therefore, using position: absolute allows us to put elements on top of each other independently of the normal document flow, and they can be positioned at any location without affecting the layout of other elements.

👩‍💻 Could you explain that again in non-technical terms?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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Sure, I'd be happy to explain it again using simpler language.

When we want to put elements on top of each other, it's often best to use the position: absolute CSS property. This is because absolute positioning ensures that the elements are positioned at an exact location on the page and won't move around or affect the other elements around them.

Using other positioning methods like position: relative, static, or sticky won't work as well because these methods don't completely remove the element from the regular page flow. As a result, the layout of the other elements can be affected and the elements being positioned may not be laid out correctly.

So, using position: absolute allows us to put the elements at the exact desired position and prevents them from affecting the other elements on the page.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Yasmeen Trisa

What is the difference between div and span?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 10.18 seconds

Div and span are HTML elements which are used to structure HTML documents. Div elements act as a container that can be used to divide the HTML document into sections, while span elements are used to structure its contents.

Divs are block level elements and always start on a new line whereas spans are inline elements and don't move down to the next line. Divs are used for grouping HTML elements, whereas spans are used for styling and positioning. The div element is used more commonly than span elements.

Example:

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<div>This element is used to divide a page into sections.</div> <span>This element can be used to style and position text within a page.</span>

👩‍💻 Technical question

How can I write a text with a circle around it in HTML?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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You can use the <span> element in HTML with its associated style attribute to write text with a circle around it. An example is shown below:

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<span style="border: 2px solid #000; border-radius: 50%; padding: 5px;">Text here</span>

Here is an example of this code in action:

Text Here

👩‍💻 Technical question

What's the difference between span and div?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 3.99 seconds

span and div are both HTML tags used for grouping and styling elements in an HTML document.

span tags are generally used for line-level content, such as short strings or individual words. div tags, on the other hand, are generally used to group larger blocks of code together, such as paragraphs or entire sections.

👩‍💻 how about between strong and em?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 4.5 seconds

The strong and em tags are HTML elements used for text styling and emphasizing the importance of specific text content.

The strong tag is generally used to indicate bold text, while the em tag is used to indicate italicized text. Additionally, strong elements convey a higher level of importance, while em elements emphasis the importance of specific words or phrases. These tags are simply styles, and do not inherently change the meaning or content of text elements.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Pandemela

how to use span

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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The HTML <span> element is a generic container used to add structure and styling to pieces of text that appear within a single line of text on a webpage.

It is useful for wrapping any text or phrase, such as an acronym or part of speech, or for changing the font, size, or text color.

Here is an example of how to use the <span> element in HTML:

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<p>This is some text <span style="color:red; font-size:20px;">with some red, larger text</span>.</p>

This will produce:

This is some text with some red, larger text.

👩‍💻 Technical question

how do you add a class to a span?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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In HTML, to add a class to a <span> element, you can use the class attribute like so:

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<span class="className">Lorem ipsum</span>

In CSS, you can apply styles to a <span> element with the class like this:

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.className { /* Styles go here */ }

👩‍💻 Technical question

can you put a span inside a paragraph?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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Yes, you can add a <span> inside a <p> element in HTML.

For example:

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<p>This is a sentence with a <span>span element</span> inside.</p>

This will render a paragraph with a span element:

This is a sentence with a span element inside.

👩‍💻 Technical question

can i use a span within a header?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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Yes, you can use a <span> tag within a <header> element. An example of this would be:

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<header> <h1>Example Header<span> for Example</span></h1> </header>

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Mariana

how to use span with text-overflow:hidden

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 7.67 seconds

You can use the span tag in combination with the text-overflow: hidden; CSS property to hide overflowing text.

For example, you can use code such as:

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span { width: 100px; display: block; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; }

Which would cause overflowing text to be cut off and an ellipsis to be shown at the end, like This is an example of text-overflow:ellipsis would become This is an examp…

For more information, please visit MDN.

👩‍💻 Technical question

span and div difference

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 10.87 seconds

In HTML, span and div elements are used to define sections within an HTML document. The major difference between the two is that span elements are used to group inline elements within a section whereas div elements are used to group block-level elements within a section.

For example, the span element is used to group inline elements such as text or image, whereas the div element can be used to group non-inline elements, such as paragraph, header, or footer.

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<div> <span>Hello! I am text inside a span element.</span> </div>

👩‍💻 Technical question

explain div and span

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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div and span are HTML tags that can be used to structure the content of a webpage. div is used to separate larger sections of content from each other, while span is used to group small sections of content within a div.

For example, a webpage might include multiple div elements, each containing different sections of the page, such as a header, footer, and body. In turn, each section may include its own span elements to indicate where certain pieces of content, like a heading or a paragraph, are located.

Example written in HTML

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<div> <span>This is a heading</span> <span>This is a paragraph</span> </div>

👩‍💻 Technical question

How to use span tag with inline-block?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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span { display: inline-block; }

To use a tag with inline-block, you can add the display: inline-block CSS style to the tag, like this example:

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Lauren

How can you centre align a <span> element?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 4.96 seconds

In HTML, you can use the <center> tag to center a <span> element. However, this is not a modern approach as this tag has been deprecated from HTML5.

A better approach would be to use CSS. You can specify text-align: center in a specific class of the <span> element and apply the class to the element. For example:

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<span class="center">This text will be center aligned</span>
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.center { text-align: center; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Tabitha

what is the difference between div and span

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 12.16 seconds

The <div> element is a block-level element used to group other HTML elements, whereas the <span> element is an inline element used to group inline elements.

The <div> element is applicable to block level elements like (p, h1-h6, ul, form, header, footer, etc) whereas the <span> element is applicable to only inline elements(a, img, input, etc).

The <div> element takes the full width of the container in which it is present and the <span> element does not take the full width of their parent elements.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Candace

whats does <span> do?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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<span> is an HTML tag that is used to group inline-elements and apply styles to them. It has no other semantic meaning and does not affect the document layout. For example, you can enclose a word in a <span> element and apply a style to it to make the word bold, change its color etc. Here is an example:

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<span style="color:red; font-weight: bold;">This text is in red and bold.</span>

👩‍💻 Technical question

How do I center multiples lines of span code

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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span { display: block; text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by kimberly

How do I make a word strong when it is in a span?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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You can use the <strong> tag to change any text between its opening and closing tag to appear bold and strong. This can be used on any text, including text within a <span> element.

For example:

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<span>This word is <strong>strong</strong></span>

Will output:

This word is strong

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Michaela

what are the following: span, em, hr, a,

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 5.78 seconds

The following HTML tags are as follows:

  • <span> - Used to make a part of the page inline.
  • <em> - Emphasize content.
  • <hr> - Defines a horizontal rule or a thematic break.
  • <a> - Defines a hyperlink, used to link from one page to another.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Lindelwa

how to use span

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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span is an inline-level HTML element used to wrap the text content, which allows you to apply styles or attributes to the subset of text without applying them to the entire page.

The basic syntax of a span element is:

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<span>Text content</span>

It can be used together with other HTML tags to achieve the intended effect. For example, the following code wraps a section of <h1> header text in a span:

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<h1>Welcome to <span>SheCodes</span></h1>

For more information, please see the MDN Documentation on Span Elements.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Sofiia

Text and image in the same line

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 13.47 seconds

Most HTML elements, by default, are block-level elements. This means they always start on a new line in the document. To make text and images appear on the same line, you need to use an inline display element. In particular, you can use the HTML <span> element, which is an inline element that can be used to group elements for styling purposes.

For example, HTML code such as:

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<p><span>The cat </span><img src="cat.jpg"></p>

Will render with the text to the left of the image:

The cat

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Alburi

Difference between div and span when using classes

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 25.99 seconds

The div and span elements are both used to define sections in an HTML document, but they differ in usage. The div element is used to group and structure content, while the span element is used to apply styling and layout to individual sections without defining a new structure. One of the most important differences is that classes can be used with div and span elements to create reusable sections that can be styled using CSS.

For example, a class called "container" could be used to center the HTML content of a page in a div element. This could be accomplished by adding the class name to the header:

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<div class="container"> <!-- Content goes here --> </div>

Alternatively, if you only wanted a selected part of your page to be styled or laid out, you could do that in a span element with a class name:

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<span class="myClass"> <!-- Content goes here --> </span>

The class name could then be used with CSS to control the styling or layout of the content.

More information can be found in this article on difference between div and span elements.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Anna-Maria

Please explain how div and span works.

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 17.47 seconds

Div and span are elements in HTML used for creating web page content.

div elements are block elements, meaning they start on a new line and takes the full width of the screen. They can be used to group other elements and divide up sections of the page.

span elements are inline elements, meaning they do not start on a new line and can be used for styling small sections of the page such as words or phrases.

For a more detailed explanation and examples, please see the Mozilla Developer Network guide on div and span

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Adessa

How do I position a span inside of a div with CSS and HTML?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 7.65 seconds

Firstly, you will need to use div and span tags to begin positioning your element. You can use the CSS position property along with top, bottom, left, and right to assign where the span should be inside of the div.

For example, the code block below should place the span element 20px from the top of the div element and 30px from the left of the div element.

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div { position: relative; } span { position: absolute; top: 20px; left: 30px; }

For further reading on the position property, check out Mozilla MDN's documentation.

👩‍💻 Technical question

What's the difference between span and div?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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The span and div elements are typically used to define divisions or sections in an HTML document. The span element is an inline element, used to wrap small pieces of content within its parent element. The div element is a block-level element, used to wrap large chunks of code and define divisions within a page.

Another distinction is that span elements do not have semantic meaning or built-in styling. div elements, however, have semantic meaning (such as a div tag marked as "aside" meaning that its content is tangentially related to the flow of the document) and come with some form of styling.

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