HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<xmp>
Renders a block of text without any format-
ting
Function
Attributes
class
,
style
End tag
</xmp>
; never omitted
Contains
literal_text
Used in
block
The
<xmp>
tag formats text just like the
<pre>
tag with a specified width of
80 characters. However, unlike the
<pre>
tag, you don't have to replace
the literal
<
,
>
, and
&
characters with their entity equivalents within an
<xmp>
block. The name
<xmp>
is short for "example"; the language's de-
signers intended that the tag be used to format examples of text origin-
ally displayed on 80-column-wide displays. Because the 80-column dis-
play has mostly gone the way of green screens and teletypes and the
effect of an
<xmp>
tag is basically the same as
<pre width=80>
, don't use
<xmp>
; it may disappear in subsequent versions of HTML.
