white-space help

RC wrote:

xmp> tag </xmp> is better than <pre> tag </pre

Why?

It's not part of HTML (since 3.2), so it's not valid, and even where it
was recognised, it didn't do anything that you can't do with <pre>

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/...html#h-A.3.1.3
"The following elements are obsolete: LISTING, PLAINTEXT, and XMP. For
all of them, authors should use the PRE element instead."

Andy Dingley wrote:

RC wrote:

xmp> tag </xmp> is better than <pre> tag </pre

Why?

Inside <xmp> tag you can type

5 > 4
1 < 2
3 & 7 both are > 1
<b>Bold face</b>

</xmp>

This is convenient for mathematic and HTML examples.

But inside <pre> tag you must/need to type

5 > 4 or 5 &gt; 4
1 < 2 or 1 &lt; 2
3 & 7 both are $gt; 1
<b>Bold face</b>

</pre>

Do you think everybody remember those hexadecimal or symbols?

It's not part of HTML (since 3.2),

Too bad, it is deprecated of HTML 2.0

JRS: In article <1155519612.381837.181370 (AT) 74g2000cwt (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
dated Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:40:12 remote, seen in news:comp.infosystems.ww
w.authoring.stylesheets, Brent <bkraymond (AT) gmail (DOT) com> posted :

On 2006-08-13, Brent wrote:

Is there really no way to force the text to wrap while preserving
whitespace? This is really bumming me out. :-(

Paragraph indents, character returns at the end of paragraphs, and
multiple spaces in succession. I lose them all when I attempt to wrap
the text.

You can paste it into a textarea, then invoke javascript to wrap at
whitespace before a given character count and put it in a PRE.

Parts of the javascript behind <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-
quick.htm> Pack button might be useful to you; you'd have at least to
remove what changes multiple whitespace to single - or replace it by
multiple &nbsp;.

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