Spans
The <span> tag is created by percent % signs between whitespaces. It is used to group inline-elements in a document.
Textile example: Spans
My mother has %{color:green;}green% eyes.
Textile input (editable)
Browser output
HTML output
More about: Spans
1. HTML class and id attributes…
(class) or (#id) or (class#id)
…can also be used on spans.