CSS: span with a fixed width

The <span> element is an inline element, so you can not assign a fixed width to the element as long as it remains an inline element.

You have to set the <span> element to display:block, so that it becomes a block element and only then, it is sensitive to width specifications.

However, with this, several span elements will be displayed below each other (probably you do not want that). To prevent this, you can still float the element with float:left, so it slides to the left.
2012-08-04 at 13:31