<pre>

Summary

The HTML <pre> Element (or HTML Preformatted Text) 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.

• Content categories Flow content, palpable content.
• Permitted content Phrasing content.
• Tag omission None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
• Permitted parent elements Any element that accepts flow content.
• DOM interface HTMLPreElement

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Examples

<!-- Some example CSS code -->
<pre>
body {
  color:red;
}
</pre> 

Result

body {
  color:red;
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• CSS: white-space, word-break