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Asked: 2026-05-23T15:41:58+00:00

I’m wondering if that (my title) is ever incorrect, other than for HTML validation.

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I’m wondering if that (my title) is ever incorrect, other than for HTML validation. I’ve recently had to start supporting IE7 again (I’ve been lucky enough to not have to for the past 3 years or so) and the fact that div’s can’t be inline-block has gotten me about 10 times in the past month due to the fact that I make everything a div by default and then go back and stylize elements. So I’m considering making everything a span so that if I later go back and make something inline-block I’m not trying to figure out why it’s not working in IE7.

So my question — Is there ever a case, in any browser (IE7+, FF, Webkit, Opera), that anyone knows of where a span can not act like a div? I’m not concerned about the HTML not validating due to having block elements inside inline ones.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not going to directly answer your question, but I think this is worth saying.

    I’ve recently had to start supporting
    IE7 again (I’ve been lucky enough to
    not have to for the past 3 years or
    so) and the fact that div’s can’t be
    inline-block has gotten me about 10
    times in the past month

    You can use display: inline-block in IE7 for block-level elements such as divs, with:

    selector {
    display: inline-block;
    *display: inline;
    zoom: 1
}

    If you don’t want to use an invalid but safe CSS hack (*property), you can use conditional comments.

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