No he probably copied the code I sent him. I threw together a quick example that had a span wrapping his elements. It should have been a div or a paragraph.
Sorry Crest. Update that span to a div if your using my example. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com > On Feb 23, 2017, at 4:03 PM, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > Tom Livingston wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Crest Christopher >> <crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm strictly having to use inline style sheets. My goal is to reposition >>> the tag I'm about to mention vertically on the page. >>> >>> I have a <h2> nested within a <span>, when I try to style the <h2> tag I >>> can't reposition the contents within the tag using margins. When I >>> attempt to style the the <span> using margins I also can't reposition >>> the contents within, although I don't want to style the <span> since >>> I'll be styling everything within the <span> as well and I strictly want >>> to only reposition the <h2> tag ? >> >> The span is an inline element which doesn't respond to margin styles. >> add a declaration for the span to be inline-block (or block) and then >> try your positioning. > Do you both believe that an <H2> element can legitimately be a child of a > <SPAN> element ? > If so, are you able to cite any W3C specification that permits such a nest ? > > Philip Taylor > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/