The xtype "HST.Span" as container-component limits the (blocks) formatting capabilities of its container-items.

To configure a container for horizontal 'widgets' placements, a pagecomponent is configured as a StandardContainerComponent with an xtype value 'HST.Span'.

The span-element defined in (hst-page-composer-2.24.10-sources.jar!/org/hippoecm/hst/pagecomposer/builtin/components/span.ftl) surrounding the 'widgets' limits a wide range of html-elements used in the child templates of its container-items. It is not possible to define any blocks-formatting (e.g. table, div, p etc.) in the child widget, without breaking the html validity. HTML validity is an important topic regarding the WCAG compliancy for a hippo site.

It would be an improvement if an additional xtype would be implemented that would not rely on the usage of span-element for displaying widgets horizontally.