Javascript Reference - HTML DOM Span Object

The Span object represents an HTML <span> element.

Standard Properties and Events

The Span object supports the standard properties and events.

Span Object

The following code shows how to get <span> element by using getElementById()


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<span id="mySpan" style="color:blue;">blue</span>
<button onclick="myFunction()">test</button>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
function myFunction() {<!--from  w w w.jav  a  2 s.  c o  m-->
    var x = document.getElementById("mySpan").style.color;
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

The code above is rendered as follows:

Example 2

The following code shows how to create a <span> element by using the document.createElement() method


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<button onclick="myFunction()">test</button>
<script>
function myFunction() {<!--from w ww.  j a  v  a  2 s. com-->
    var x = document.createElement("SPAN");
    var t = document.createTextNode("span");
    x.appendChild(t);
    document.body.appendChild(x);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

The code above is rendered as follows: