HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<listing>
Renders a block of text without any format-
ting
Function
Attributes
class
,
style
End tag
</listing>
; never omitted
Contains
literal_text
Used in
block
The only difference between
<pre>
and
<listing>
is that no other markup
is allowed within the
<listing>
tag, so you don't have to replace the liter-
al
<
,
>
, and
&
characters with their entity equivalents in a
<listing>
block,
as you must inside a
<pre>
block.
Because the
<listing>
tag is the same as a
<pre width=132>
tag, and be-
cause it might not be supported in later versions of the popular browsers,
we recommend that you stay away from using
<listing>
.
