I use it to contain a background image which is the "cap" on the end of a curved tab. I could also think of other of reasons to do this. Sometimes you want to have a message or indicator in an A and want to change it dynamically.
It still shouldn't crash the browser. I "thought" it was valid. Glen On 4/30/07, Simon Tiplady | Forums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the point of a span if it is not spanning anything? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Lipka > Sent: 01 May 2007 00:51 > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] <span /> crashing IE7 > > My IE7 crashes if I look at the following source: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html> > <head> > <title>Crashes IE7</title> > > <style> > a { position: relative;} > a span{position: absolute;} > </style> > </head> > <body > > > <a href="">Link1<span /></a> > <a href="">Link2<span /></a> > > </body> > </html> > > It doesn't crash if I am explicit with <span></span> It doesn't crash if I > only have 1 link. > > Is <span /> illegal? Why would this crash IE7? > > Glen > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- > http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
