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Re:A few HTML tips by acdha on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:18PM (#12355324)
I would agree with that – it's a convention which the FontAwesome project uses for reasons I haven't looked into (I'm assuming not wanting to type 6 more characters).

I use <span> on all of my projects.

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Re:A few HTML tips by biztos on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:21PM (#12355344)
Yes but shouldn't a <span> also always have content? Am I missing something here?
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Re:A few HTML tips by spicyj on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @08:35PM (#12356195)
There's nothing that requires it to have content, no. Absent other styles, an empty <span> would be invisible and have no effect though.
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