span tag

Presentation container tag

Styles a stretch of content within the flow of the surrounding text.

Sample usage

<span bold=true {important}> displays important in bold.
<span size=24,pt color={navy} {Heading}> displays larger, navy text.
<greeting:span {Hello}> creates a span that can be changed later, e.g. with <greeting {Goodbye}>.

Fields

Primary field

Presentation container field

The content of the span: text, values and other presentation tags.

Secondary fields

Standard presentation fields:
align field
backgroundColor field
bold field
border field
borderBottom field
borderColor field
borderLeft field
borderRight field
borderStyle field
borderTop field
bottom field
color field
editable field
focus field
focusOrder field
font field
height field
hotKey field
inline field
italic field
layer field
left field
margin field
marginBottom field
marginLeft field
marginRight field
marginTop field
onContextClick field
onFocus field
onInput field
onKeyDown field
onKeyPress field
onKeyUp field
onMouseDown field
onMouseIn field
onMouseMove field
onMouseOut field
onMouseUp field
pivot field
right field
rotate field
scroll field
scrollPos field
selectable field
spacing field
spacingBottom field
spacingLeft field
spacingRight field
spacingTop field
top field
transition field
underline field
visible field
width field
wrap field

Behaviour

A span's content flows with the text around it: if it reaches the end of a line, it wraps onto the next line along with the surrounding text. A span has no box of its own unless it is given a border or a background colour.

Notes

Named spans are the usual way to display a value that changes, such as a score or a status message: create the span once, then assign new contents to it.