SPAN vs DIV (inline-block)

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Published on 2009-10-23T02:06:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 0:17 UTC
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Hi,

Is there any reason to use a <div style="display:inline-block"> instead of a <span> to layout a webpage?

Can I put content nested inside the span? What is valid and what isn't?

Thanks!

It's ok to use this to make a 3x2 table like layout?

<div>
   <span> content1(divs,p, spans, etc) </span>
   <span> content2(divs,p, spans, etc) </span>
   <span> content3(divs,p, spans, etc) </span>
</div>
<div>
   <span> content4(divs,p, spans, etc) </span>
   <span> content5(divs,p, spans, etc) </span>
   <span> content6(divs,p, spans, etc) </span>
</div>

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