I haven't been clear on the right use of monospacing tags here, either--
for instance, why <CODE> is preferred to <PRE>.
Tags like <KBD> and <CODE> are normally used for
monospacing
in-line. If you wrap a multi-line block of text in
<CODE> tags, you expect
the line breaks to disappear when the
HTML file is displayed
in the browser unless you also add <BR>
tags at the end of each line.
But wrap that same text in <PRE></PRE>, and the line breaks are
handled fine without need for <BR> tags.
I recall hearing a while ago here that the site turns <CODE> into <PRE>--
but then wouldn't that be the
wrong thing to do when the intent was
to add monospaced text in-line?
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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