07:56, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Span -Note that the blank spaces at the end of and just after the styled part are removed; use   at the end:)
07:43, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Span -The replacement <div style="display:inline"> can be used, but, oddly, apparently only in a list:)
05:42, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Span -The replacement <div style="display:inline"> is effectively disabled: the code is retained, but with closure of the paragraph before it and starting a new one after it.)
04:35, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Span - Note that many readers will not have their own css, specially adapted for such usage, so one cannot refer to "the red text above", etc.)
04:30, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Span -correction; This is suitable if the color is specifically intended to be red; if it is just for emphasis a more general term for the class would be more appropriate, because css allows the u)
04:10, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Span -E.g. to assign the class "red" to a text one can put <div style="display:inline; class="red"/>example text</div> which gives)
04:00, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (Span is also not allowed now, but this is being discussed, see w:Wikipedia:Span tags poll. It can be replaced by <div style="display:inline"/>.)
08:38, 31 July 2004 User:Patrick (E.g., element "a" is not allowed, and the wikitext)
08:27, 31 July 2004 User:Patrick (and allows the tag to be used as link target.)
08:16, 31 July 2004 User:Patrick (For many w:HTML elements more convenient wikitext code is available, see Help:Editing. However, HTML tags allow an id that can be referenced in css, to specify a user style.)
08:10, 31 July 2004 User:Patrick (The following excerpt from [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phpwiki/newcodebase/OutputPage.php OutputPage.php] shows what HTML is allowed in wikitext.)