# Dropcaps in Discourse - cannot override span tag

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropcaps-in-discourse-cannot-override-span-tag/66477>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [20.Июль.2017 00:29:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropcaps-in-discourse-cannot-override-span-tag/66477 "2017-07-20T00:29:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![norandom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/norandom/32/166825_2.png) [@norandom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/norandom)\
**Post date:** [20.Июль.2017 12:41:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropcaps-in-discourse-cannot-override-span-tag/66477/8 "2017-07-20T12:41:06Z")

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Hey,

I tried @cpradio 's solution.

Good news: it compiled. Nothing died.

Bad news: it doesn’t do anything.

[https://github.com/norandom/discourse-span-tag-whitelist/blob/master/assets/javascripts/span-tag-whitelist.js.es6](https://github.com/norandom/discourse-span-tag-whitelist/blob/master/assets/javascripts/span-tag-whitelist.js.es6)

Somehow I sense that this isn’t going to be that 5 minute job…

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