What does the HTML acronym "span" stands for?

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alonso.torres picture alonso.torres · Dec 8, 2010 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

I guess that <div> might actually stand for: "division" since it creates a division in the document by separating content before and after it. Am I right?

But <span> is a little bit more obscure on its meaning. I made some googling on this and found some interesting options: "Super Passive Analyzer Node", "SPAce Node", "Simple Plain Access Node".

Does anyone know the right acronym for <span>?

Answer

Donut picture Donut · Dec 8, 2010

It's not an acronym, it simply "spans" the content that is within the tag.

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