Posted by Mark Parnell on 01/21/80 11:54

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, John O'Conner
<jsoconner2@NOSPAMearthlink.net> declared in alt.html:

> I've been told that I can no longer use pre-tags for code sample text.

Why? By who? Certainly not the W3C.

> My question is this: how can I duplicate the pre-tag functionality with
> other tags

white-space: pre; - but support is not as good as it is for the <pre>
element (not supported by IE<6).

There was a discussion of this only last week or something. IIRC the
consensus was that generally the best solution is something along the
lines of:

<pre><code>
code here
</code></pre>

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Mark Parnell
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