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title: "Inline label"
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description: "Inline labels in PageSeeder associate custom styles or semantics to running content within text blocks, functioning like character styles in word processors. Expressed as `<inline label=\"XXXX\">content</inline>` in PSML, they apply to HTML span elements."
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# Inline label

Designed to associate custom styles or semantics to running pieces of content inside a text block (paragraph). Inline labels play the equivalent role for PageSeeder as “character” or “inline” styles play in traditional publishing or word processing systems.

They are a type of [content label](/reference/glossary/content_labels.md) for HTML inline-level elements (SPAN).

As [PSML](/reference/glossary/psml.md), inline labels are expressed as:

```xml
<inline label="XXXX">content</inline>
```

where `XXXX` is the name of the label. For more detailed information, *see* [element \<inline\>](/psml/elements/element_inline.md).

To add formatting or semantics to paragraphs, use [block labels](/reference/glossary/block_label.md).