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The 

 element in HTML represents preformatted text. Text within this element is typically displayed in a non-proportional font exactly as it is laid out in the file. Whitespaces inside this element are displayed as typed. It is usually used for showing computer code or output.

The <pre> element in HTML represents preformatted text. Text within this element is typically displayed in a non-proportional font exactly as it is laid out in the file. Whitespaces inside this element are displayed as typed. It is usually used for showing computer code or output.

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How to insert spaces/tabs in text using HTML/CSS

Possible ways: 
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or style="white-space:pre" Anything else?
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Display element as preformatted text via CSS

Is there any way to emulate the display of a pre element via CSS? For example, can I keep the whitespace intact in this div by using a CSS rule?
Please procure the following items: - Soup - Jam - Hyphens …
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How to escape < and > inside 
 tags

I'm trying to write a blog post which includes a code segment inside a 
 tag. The code segment includes a generic type and uses <> to define that type. This is what the segment looks like:

    PrimeCalc calc = new PrimeCalc();
   …
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How to display raw HTML code in PRE or something like it but without escaping it

I'd like to display raw HTML. We all know one has to escape each "<" and ">" like this: 
 this is a test  <DIV>
However, I do not want to do this. I'd like a way to keep the HTML code as is (since it is easier to read, (inside…
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Is it possible to make any CSS element behave like

I am loading some content inside an iframe. I want this content to behave as-if it was inside a 
 tag - namely for it to respect line breaks.  I am using javascript to set the style of the body element of this iframe.
I am wondering if it would…
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How to make Twitter Bootstrap's 
 blocks scroll horizontally?

Per the examples https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/content/code/#code-blocks, bootstrap only supports vertically-scrollable and word-wrapped 
 blocks out of the box. How do I make it so that I have horizontally-scrollable, unwrapped code blocks…
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How to preserve whitespace indentation of text enclosed in HTML 
 tags excluding the current indentation level of the 
 tag in the document?

I'm trying to display my code on a website but I'm having problems preserving the whitespace indentation correctly. For instance given the following snippet: Here is my code: 
     def some_funtion
       return 'Hello,…
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HTML 
 tag values get horizontal scroll bars,how to format it?

This is my blog page. Sometimes I have to use C#,PHP and other code snippets in the blog. Therefore I use pre tags to make it looks nice and keep the formatting code as it is. pre tag width is 100% and it has a background colour. However, the text…
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How to use css to change 
 font size

pre{font-family:cursive;font-style:italic;font-size:xxx-small} How to change pre font size?
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How can I remove leading whitespace in my 
/ block without removing indentation in my HTML?

I have the following HTML: Here is some code: 

        Here is some fun code!
But when I preview it, because the code is indented, the pre is all out of whack. I can fix that by bringing the…
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 tag adds gap above itself?

I have the following HTML:

Embed Code

  
<script type="text/javascript">
  var something = 'else';
</script>
And the following CSS: h2 { background:#1e7ca2; font-weight: 100; …
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HTML 
 tag causes linebreaks

I'm using CSS (via JQuery , but not relevant to this question) to highlight certain elements within an HTML file: I'm using "pre" tags to separate out logical elements in my file, but I noticed that "pre" tags seem to leave newlines between…
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how to set the text of a pre tag using jquery

I'm using a pre tag to hold some raw formated text that has carriage returns. When the page is first displayed, it looks fine. Later, I want to refresh just the pre data. I've tried two ways to do this with jquery, one using .html() and the other…
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Inserting a newline into a pre tag (IE, Javascript)

In IE when I insert text into a 
 tag the newlines are ignored:





Using \r\n instead of a plain…

        

            

                
                 
                
                 
                
                 
                
                 
                
            

            

                
                    


    
    
        
    
    

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Syntax highlighting in 
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Are there any libraries that will allow me to display code in 
 tags and highlight the syntax according to the language? I'm imagining something like this:

class MyClass:
    """A simple example class"""
    i = 12345
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