HTMLSpanElement : HTMLElement
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Specifies a span element used to surround content blocks for formatting.

Platform Support

Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
1.0+ 5.0+ 1.0+ 4.0+ 3.0+ 3.0+

Constructors

Constructor Action Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
HTMLSpanElement Constructor() : HTMLSpanElement
Creates an instance of the HTMLSpanElement.
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HTMLSpanElement() : HTMLSpanElement

Creates an instance of the HTMLSpanElement.

Returns
HTMLSpanElement

Visibility
internal

Inherited Functions

Method Action Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
getElementsByClassName(String classNames) : NodeList
Returns a NodeList containing all the Element nodes with the specified classNames.
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Parameters
String classNames (one-or-more)A string representing the class name(s) of the elements to return. Multiple class names should be separated by spaces.

Returns
NodeList

Using getElementsByClassName

                        	                    document.getElementById("useCases").getElementsByClassName("question");

Would return a NodeList of all elements inside the element with the id "useCases" to which the class "question" applies.

                        	                    document.getElementById("useCases").getElementsByClassName("question issue");

Would return a NodeList of all elements inside the element with the id "useCases" to which both the classes "question" and "issue" apply.

Remarks

Returns a list of child elements to which the specified className applies. The returned NodeList is sorted in tree order (the order the elements were found during a depth-first preorder traversal through the node tree).

See Also

Document.getElementsByClassName|Element.getElementsByClassName|HTMLDocument.getElementsByClassName

Availability

HTML 5|W3C|W3C

References

HTMLSpanElement

Availability

JavaScript 1.2|WhatWG

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