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HTMLSpanElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTMLSpanElement interface represents a <span> element and derives from the HTMLElement interface, but without implementing any additional properties or methods.

EventTarget Node Element HTMLElement HTMLSpanElement

Instance properties

This interface has no properties, but inherits properties from: HTMLElement.

Instance methods

This interface has no methods, but inherits methods from: HTMLElement.

Specifications

Specification
HTML>
# htmlspanelement>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
HTMLSpanElement 15 12 1 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6

See also

  • The HTML element implementing this interface: <span>.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLSpanElement