# Live Preview: Support inline HTML elements (like span)

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/live-preview-support-inline-html-elements-like-span/62707>\
**Category:** Bug reports\
**Tags:** not-intuitive, repro, editor-parser, live-preview\
**Created:** [July 7, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/live-preview-support-inline-html-elements-like-span/62707 "2023-07-07T01:04:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/live-preview-support-inline-html-elements-like-span/62707/1 "2023-07-07T01:04:12Z")

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Reader supports inline HTML but editor/live-preview does not.

```auto
Text <span style="background: red">Inline **HTML** </span>

```

Editor  
 ![Obsidian_I5ClHWjNzN](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/c/c/cced2642deb687cc2fab5c3b11034887b013ed07.png)

Reader  
 ![Obsidian_S44aBQoPIQ](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/1/8/1877a61bd02fb969543ed4d878e207541928739f.png)

This should not be confused with html blocks which follows different rules.