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Asked: 2026-05-12T17:17:23+00:00

Whenever there is a SPAN element in HTML content, the mobile version of Safari

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Whenever there is a SPAN element in HTML content, the mobile version of Safari renders content differently- it seems that font size increases for the whole paragraph. Consider two examples.

<div style="border: 1px solid red; width:500px;">
<p>This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph.</p>
</div>

and

<div style="border: 1px solid red; width:500px;">
<p>This is a <span>paragraph</span>. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph.</p>
</div>

Second example breaks page structure because font size increases, and thus the content exceeds div’s width. Is there any way around this (besides not using SPAN)?

iPhone OS 3.1.2

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  1. Editorial Team

    The display of those two HTML fragments look identical to me on iPhone Safari (also iPhone OS 3.1.2).

    Is there any CSS being applied to SPAN tags?

    [Edit: I see the difference now; you won’t see any difference if both examples are on the same page.]

    [Added:]
    By explicitly setting the size, it appears you can get consistent text size between the two. For example:

    <style type="text/css">
  div, p, span {
    font-size: 24px;
  }
</style>
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