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Figure 4-18. Use the <pre> tag to preserve the integrity
of columns and rows
4.6.5.1. Allowable content
The text within a
<pre>
segment may contain physical and content-
based style changes, along with anchors, images, and horizontal rules.
When possible, the browser should honor style changes, within the con-
straint of using a monospaced font for the entire
<pre>
block. Tags that
cause a paragraph break (heading,
<p>
, and
<address>
tags, for ex-
ample) must not be used within the
<pre>
block. Some browsers will in-
terpret paragraph-ending tags as simple line breaks, but this behavior
is not consistent across all browsers.
Style markup and other tags are allowed in a
<pre>
block, so you must
use entity equivalents for the literal characters:
<
for
<
,
>
for
>
,
and
&
for
&
.
