Is span the only way to do this?

[KiwiBrian]

If I have some text strings on a page, e.g. headings, or paragraphs, and I
want them to have a background colour behind just the text, is use of the
span tag surrounding/enclosing the text the only way of achieving this?
Of course I would want it to adjust to any client resizing of the text, or
if characters were added or removed in the source.
I was surprised to find that paragraphs are the width of their container and
not the width of the text string, but no doubt there is a good reason for
this.

TIA
Brian Tozer

 

[mscir]

If I have some text strings on a page, e.g. headings, or paragraphs, and I
want them to have a background colour behind just the text, is use of the
span tag surrounding/enclosing the text the only way of achieving this?
Of course I would want it to adjust to any client resizing of the text, or
if characters were added or removed in the source. ....
TIA
Brian Tozer

Try applying a background-color to the various page elements, or a span.
Using a span for inline text is probably the easiest way to do what you
want.

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/properties/colorbg/bgcolor.htm
http://www.codeave.com/css/code.asp?u_log=4007
http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_text_background

Mike