Styling An Inline Element

[skaterdav85]

If I want to create a blue box on a page using a span, how come I have to declare it as a block element using display:block, rather than just assigning it a width and height? I.e.

span {    width:100px;    height:100px;    background-color:blue;     display:block; }

instead of

span {    width:100px;    height:100px;    background-color:blue; }

[Ahmad Fayed]

Use <div> Just Use <span> for text .. My Friend taught me that .. and by trial and experience, I concluded that was a good advice

[skaterdav85]

well in my case, i am using anchor tags instead, and it presents the same problem because anchors are also inline elements, so I wanted to know why.

[Ingolme]

Inline elements are not allowed to use certain properties, such as width, height and margin. Padding works, but only horizontal padding.If you want an inline element to have block properties, but remain inline, then set its display to inline-block.