Span may refer to any of the following:

  1. In general, span is how far something can extend from one end to another. For example, a server rack may span 35 feet across a glass house.

  2. Regarding HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), see our page for more information about this tag.

  3. When describing the distance in a spreadsheet or multiple cells, rows, or columns, a span is called a range.