HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<pre>
Renders a block of text without any format-
ting
Function
class
,
dir
,
id
,
lang
,
onClick
,
onDblClick
,
onKeyDown
,
onKeyPress
,
onKeyUp
,
onMouseDown
,
onMouseMove
,
onMouseOut
,
onMouseOver
,
onMouseUp
,
style
,
title
,
width
Attributes
</pre>
; never omitted
End tag
Contains
pre_content
Used in
block
Authors most often use the
<pre>
formatting tag when the integrity of
columns and rows of characters must be retained; for instance, in tables
of numbers that must line up correctly. Another application for
<pre>
is to
set aside a blank segmenta series of blank linesin the document display,
perhaps to clearly separate one content section from another or to tem-
porarily hide a portion of the document when it first loads and is rendered
by the user's browser.
Tab characters have their desired effect within the
<pre>
block, with tab
stops defined at every eighth character position. We discourage their use,
however, because tabs aren't consistently implemented among the vari-
