Specifying inline widths in css

Suppose you have this html:

<span> aaa </span> <a> bbb </a>
<br>
<span> ccccccc </span> <a>开发者_运维知识库 dddd </a>

You need the span to be of a certain width, so there is a certain layout.

How do you do this without resorting to floating divs?

You could style the spans to be display: block, or inline-block (IE sometimes has issues with this) and then define the width.

Why? Well, span is a inline elmenent, and you cannot define width and height on inline elements, so you must "convert" the span to a block element.

inline-block.

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