`<xmp>` HTML plain text rendering element

Deprecated

Avoid using this feature in new projects. This feature may be a candidate for removal from web standards or browsers.

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Summary

The <xmp> HTML element renders text between the start and end tags without interpreting the HTML in between and using a monospaced font. The HTML2 specification recommended that it should be rendered wide enough to allow 80 characters per line.

Note: Do not use this element.

It has been deprecated since HTML3.2 and was not implemented in a consistent way. It was completely removed from current HTML.
Use the <pre> element or, if semantically adequate, the <code> element instead. Note that you will need to escape the < character as < and the & character as & to make sure they are not interpreted as markup.
A monospaced font can also be obtained on any element, by applying an adequate CSS style using monospace as the generic-font value for the font-family property.