The HTML <span> tag is used for grouping and applying styles to inline elements. There is a difference between the span tag and the div tag. The span tag is used with inline elements whilst the div tag is used with block-level content.
The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document. The <span> tag provides no visual change by itself. The <span> tag provides a way to add a hook to a part of a text or a part of a document.