<span> vs <div>

[toylet]

What are their differnces? Any url that discusses this?

 

[e n | c k m a]

What are their differnces? Any url that discusses this?

According to w3schools.com:

The <div> tag defines a division/section in a document.

and

The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.

 

[Craig]

Which means a DIV will make a new box (like a new paragraph, it'll jump
down and begin a new line) while span can be used within a sentence, for
example to make *these words in blue* then go back to normal text
without breaking the line.

 

[Mark Parnell]

What are their differnces? Any url that discusses this?

Span is inline. Div is block. As usual, the specs are the best place to
check.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.5.4

 

[Csaba Gabor]

You may also want to check
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
Posts 5-7 for some span vs div usage comments.
Frankly, I don't find some specific behaviour evident from the specs.