Description

Marks a section of inline text in a paragraph for styling via CSS.

The element is a styling aid. In itself, it does not affect the content or style of the enclosed text. When a class or id is applied to a element, the enclosed content may be styled via CSS.

Attributes

No attributes other than standard attributes are defined for elements.

Immediate descendants

elements may contain text, interleaved with the following immediate descendants.

Element name	Description
<emph>	A emphasized span of text within a paragraph.
<graphic>	An inline graphic within the paragraph text.
<span>	A span of text within a paragraph.
<strong>	A strongly highlighted span of text within a paragraph.
<sub>	A subscript span of text within a paragraph.
<sup>	A superscript span of text within a paragraph.

Immediate ancestors

Element name	Relation
<cell>	An enclosing cell in a table header or body.
<entry>	An enclosing entry in a list.
<para>	An enclosing paragraph.
<span>	An enclosing span.
<sub>	An enclosing sup.
<sup>	An enclosing sup.

Example

<document xmlns="http://boradoc.org/1.0">
  <chapter>
    <para>
      The 
      <span class="special-text">second</span>
       word of this sentence is styled with the 
      <emph>special-text</emph>
       CSS class.
    </para>
  </chapter>
</document>

The above BDML renders to the following:

The second word of this sentence is styled with the special-text CSS class.