<p>It appears that Craft filters out <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> tags by default.</p>

<p>You can control this in two ways:</p>

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<li><p>By disabling the "<em>Clean up HTML</em>" setting applied to the custom field</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/FS5MI.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/FS5MI.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p></li>
<li><p>For more control, you can create your own custom redactor config JSON file. It's discussed in the docs here:<br>
<a href="https://craftcms.com/docs/rich-text-fields#redactor-configs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://craftcms.com/docs/rich-text-fields#redactor-configs</a></p></li>
</ol>

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Simon East
<p>Is there any way to add <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> tags to Redactor II or the Redactor I plugin - would like to upgrade a site to latest version of Craft which had Redactor I and the <a href="https://github.com/aelvan/RedactorStyles-Craft" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aelvan/RedactorStyles-Craft</a> plugin.</p>

<p>The site has some tags like <code>&lt;span class="blue-color"&gt;</code> etc.</p>

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Use <span> in Redactor
# Use <span> in Redactor

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-17)

Is there any way to add  tags to Redactor II or the Redactor I plugin - would like to upgrade a site to latest version of Craft which had Redactor I and the <https://github.com/aelvan/RedactorStyles-Craft> plugin.

The site has some tags like  etc.

**Tags:** redactor, plugin-redactorstyles

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-08-01. Score: 2

It appears that Craft filters out  tags by default.

You can control this in two ways:

1. By disabling the "*Clean up HTML*" setting applied to the custom field

   [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/FS5MI.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/FS5MI.png)
2. For more control, you can create your own custom redactor config JSON file. It's discussed in the docs here:  
   <https://craftcms.com/docs/rich-text-fields#redactor-configs>


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