HTML Element: <pre>
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The HTML <pre> element indicates a piece of
preformatted text. Typically the text is displayed in a fixed-width font
(usually Courier), preserving both spaces and line breaks.
The attributes
it can take are HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes.
It used to support the width
attribute, but this is no longer supported by HTML 5.
To create or access such
an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods. The default style applicable to this element is
shown here.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<pre>pre-formatted text</pre>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x = document.createElement("PRE");
x.textContent = "pre-formatted text";
// or use var txt = document.createTextNode("pre-formatted text");
// x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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