<pre>...</pre>

The Preformatted Text element presents blocks of text in fixed-width font, and so is suitable for text that has been formatted on screen.

Within preformatted text:

Line breaks within the text are rendered as a move to the beginning of the next line.

The <p> element should not be used. If found, it should be rendered as a move to the beginning of the next line.

Anchor elements and character highlighting elements may be used.

Elements that define paragraph formatting (headings, address, etc.) must not be used.

The horizontal tab character (encoded in US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1 as decimal 9) must be interpreted as the smallest positive nonzero number of spaces which will leave the number of characters so far on the line as a multiple of 8. Its use is not recommended however.

Attributes

WIDTH

The WIDTH attribute specifies the maximum number of characters for a line and allows Web Tracker to select a suitable font and indentation. If the WIDTH attribute is not present, a width of 80 characters is assumed.

Also see