diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Catalog/view/frontend/templates/product/widget/link/link_inline.phtml b/app/code/Magento/Catalog/view/frontend/templates/product/widget/link/link_inline.phtml
index 262bc431e158efc4abd8da807744bcbdce34b986..386400d7b901cd0bdabda3f706e65f8358547058 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Catalog/view/frontend/templates/product/widget/link/link_inline.phtml
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Catalog/view/frontend/templates/product/widget/link/link_inline.phtml
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
 
 // @codingStandardsIgnoreFile
 ?>
-<div class="widget block block-product-link-inline">
+<span class="widget block block-product-link-inline">
     <a <?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $block->getLinkAttributes() ?>><span><?php echo $block->escapeHtml($block->getLabel()) ?></span></a>
-</div>
+</span>
diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Cms/view/frontend/templates/widget/link/link_inline.phtml b/app/code/Magento/Cms/view/frontend/templates/widget/link/link_inline.phtml
index 68aafe5973d0ad3fddbb74b9765236d7325dd3e1..382b492db3da5c815530d87f13ee959d82e2c083 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Cms/view/frontend/templates/widget/link/link_inline.phtml
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Cms/view/frontend/templates/widget/link/link_inline.phtml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
  * See COPYING.txt for license details.
  */
 ?>
-<div class="widget block block-cms-link-inline">
+<span class="widget block block-cms-link-inline">
     <a <?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $block->getLinkAttributes() ?>>
         <span><?php echo $block->escapeHtml($block->getLabel()) ?></span>
     </a>
-</div>
+</span>