<span>Surrounding text</span>

foosion · Today, 07:21 PM

A book I'm reading puts span tags around all text. Most are

Code:

<p><span>Paragraph of text</span></p>

but occasionally they surround a single letter.

Is there any good reason to do this? For that matter, is there any good reason to delete them all (other than a bit of space saving)?

Turtle91 · Today, 07:29 PM

Some software programs are just weird…. But…. That particular issue is something that kobo does for their kepub books. They use that span for some of their device functionality.

The individual letters surrounded by a span are usually used to apply styling. Eg the first dropcap letter in the chapter.

Since you use a kobo I’d just leave them, they don’t really hurt anything.

foosion · Today, 07:45 PM

This is in an original epub, not from kobo. Sounds like there's no good reason for it, but no harm either.

EDIT: A problem with strikethrough that seems to be a kobo issue, unless there's a general epub solution: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=44

Today, 07:21 PM	#1
foosion Addict Posts: 217 Karma: 4562 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kobo Libra 2 & Clara BW	<span>Surrounding text</span> A book I'm reading puts span tags around all text. Most are Code: <p><span>Paragraph of text</span></p> but occasionally they surround a single letter. Is there any good reason to do this? For that matter, is there any good reason to delete them all (other than a bit of space saving)?

Today, 07:45 PM	#3
foosion Addict Posts: 217 Karma: 4562 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kobo Libra 2 & Clara BW	This is in an original epub, not from kobo. Sounds like there's no good reason for it, but no harm either. EDIT: A problem with strikethrough that seems to be a kobo issue, unless there's a general epub solution: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=44 Last edited by foosion; Today at 08:45 PM.

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Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,150 Karma: 18843349 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	Some software programs are just weird…. But…. That particular issue is something that kobo does for their kepub books. They use that span for some of their device functionality. The individual letters surrounded by a span are usually used to apply styling. Eg the first dropcap letter in the chapter. Since you use a kobo I’d just leave them, they don’t really hurt anything.

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