What does “span” mean in PHP?

In PHP, “span” typically refers to elements in HTML markup language.

Elements are inline elements that are used to add style or markup to text or other HTML elements. They are commonly used in the following situations:

1. Identify specific parts of the text for formatting through a CSS stylesheet.
2. Add HTML attributes or custom data attributes to a specific text.
3. Manipulate and change the content of specific text using JavaScript.

In PHP, you can create and use elements using the following methods:

echo "<span style='color:red;'>This is a red text.</span>";

In the above example, a element with red text style was outputted using PHP’s echo statement.