Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

pre

Synopsis

<pre>...</pre>

Delimits preformatted text, meaning that lines are displayed exactly as they are typed in, honoring whitespace such as multiple character spaces and line breaks. By default, text within a pre element is displayed in a monospace font such as Courier.

Attributes

Core(id, class, style, title), Internationalization, Events

width="number"

Deprecated. This optional attribute determines how many characters to fit on a single line within the pre block.

xml:space="preserve"

XHTML only. Instructs XML processors to preserve the white space in the element.