I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this question or not. It applies to pretty much any ebook in any format but, since I happen to be using epub, I'll ask it here.
Maybe I'm missing something but I'm a little confused with as to something would be defined as a span with no different or extra formatting.
I mean, I've seen spans like:
<span class="italic">whatever</span>
or
<span class="bold">something else</span>
but what purpose would defining something as a span with nothing else serve? Something like:
<span>just regular old text</span>
The only thing I could see is that it just takes up space and makes the file a little larger.
Am I missing something?
I've seen similar occurrences of the <div> tag. If something isn't really different, I really don't understand the purpose of setting it apart from the rest of the text or chapter.
I have an epub that has almost every single paragraph defined as a span and I can't figure out why or if it would cause me any problems to remove a 4,000 of these occurrences.
Thanks for any advice.
Sincerely,
- Byron