PRE preformatted text HTML 4.01 Strict

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PRE

Purpose

preformatted text

Description

This element brackets text which should be rendered exactly as it appears, that is without "eating up" the white space. This is used, for example, to enclose program code or tables where the indentation is important.

Start tag

Required <PRE>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
class	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of classes
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
lang	NAME	#IMPLIED	language code as RFC1766; language code
onclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was clicked
ondblclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was double clicked
onkeydown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was pressed down
onkeypress	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was pressed and released
onkeyup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was released
onmousedown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was pressed down
onmousemove	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved within
onmouseout	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved away
onmouseover	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved onto
onmouseup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was released
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	style sheet data; associated style info
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	text; advisory title

Content

( #PCDATA | TT | I | B | BIG | SMALL | EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | ABBR | ACRONYM | A | IMG | OBJECT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | Q | SUB | SUP | SPAN | BDO | INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON )* -( IMG | OBJECT | BIG | SMALL | SUB | SUP )

End tag

Required </PRE>

Referenced in

BLOCKQUOTE BODY BUTTON DD DEL DIV FIELDSET FORM INS LI MAP NOSCRIPT OBJECT TD TH

Example

Source

Appearance

<PRE> 

import java.awt.Graphics;

public class HelloWorld 

 extends java.applet.Applet {

 public void init() {

  resize(

   200, 200

  );

 }

 public void 

  paint(Graphics context) {

  context.drawString(

   "Hello, world!", 10, 50

  );

 }

}

</PRE>

 
import java.awt.Graphics;
public class HelloWorld 
 extends java.applet.Applet {
 public void init() {
  resize(
   200, 200
  );
 }
 public void 
  paint(Graphics context) {
  context.drawString(
   "Hello, world!", 10, 50
  );
 }
}