What is the difference between HTML tags and ?

Question

I would like to ask for some simple examples showing the uses of

and . I\'ve seen them both used to mark a section of a pa

Answer 1

The significance of "block element" is implied but never stated explicitly. If we ignore all the theory (theory is good) then the following is a pragmatic comparison. The following:

This paragraph has a span.
This paragraph 
has
 a div.

produces:

This paragraph has a span.

This paragraph

has
a div.

That shows that not only should a div not be used inline, it simply won't produce the desired affect.