We just learned that div creates a block - it wraps content and puts it on a new line. But sometimes you don't want a new line. Sometimes you just want to target a piece of text inside a sentence without breaking the layout.
That's what span does. It wraps text inline - meaning it stays on the same line as everything around it.
Here's the key difference. With div, each element gets its own line:
<div>Sales</div>
<div>Cloud</div>This shows "Sales" on one line and "Cloud" on the next. Two separate blocks.
With span, they stay together:
<span>Sales</span>
<span>Cloud</span>This shows "Sales Cloud" on one line. The span wraps each word but doesn't create a break.
On its own, span does nothing visible. It's useful when you need to target a specific piece of text for styling with CSS. For example, if you want to make one word in a sentence a different color, you'd wrap it in a span and then apply a style to that span. We'll do exactly that when we get to CSS.
In practice, you'll use div way more than span. But when you need to style or target text inside a line without breaking the layout, span is what you reach for.