Why doesn't span display height? : <p>In the following code, why doesn't span adhere to the height rule:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;div style="border:1px black solid"&gt;
  inside div
  &lt;span style="height:300px"&gt;inside span&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>

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