This works: <input type="text" style="float:left;"/><span style="width:80px; background-color:#00FF00;display:block;float:left;">A</span>
However... I feel bad telling you that - this is bad markup - perhaps you could explain why you are trying to do this, or what the bigger picture here is? As stated by Andy, setting span, an inline element, to display:block, defeats the object of using a span tag at all. M On Nov 7, 4:04 pm, nmiddleweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes that works... > > What I'm trying to do is display a SPAN atg at the end of an Input > text field of a fixed size. If I set the display to block, it is > forcing itself to be on the next line. > > Have you got any idea on how I can do this? > > Cheers, > Nick > > On Nov 7, 3:48 pm, mbraybrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > try: > > <span style="width:80px; background-color:#00FF00; display:block;">A</ > > span> > > > Does that work? > > > M > > > On Nov 7, 3:45 pm, nmiddleweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've got a SPAN tag which is set to 80px... > > > > <span style="width:80px; background-color:#00FF00;">A</span> > > > > The contents of the SPAN is a single character and when rendered on > > > screen, the green SPAN is showing as only approx 15 pixels in width. > > > > How can I force the width to be 80px? > > > > Thanks, > > > Nick
