Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> I tried giving it both padding and margin, but didn't get what you 
>> wanted. However, display:block did the trick. It makes the span behave 
>> just like a div (and a div with display:inline would be identical to a 
>> span). You need to give it explicit width though; the default is 100% 
>> of the container block (the whole page in my test).
> 
> Scratch that; it doesn't match what you want (but gets close enough). It 
> doesn't get the B and D on the *sides* of the C block.
> 
> *tweaks more*

Yeah, I already discovered that one myself. ;-)

There's a couple of other settings that do more or less the same thing 
too. (display:table, etc.) But none does what I actually want. :-(

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