Re: problem with <pre> tag
- From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:34:44 +0300
None <kentor@xxxxxxxxx> scripsit:
in FF <pre width=100> whatever text </pre> works fine and wraps the
text so that it won't go crazy and go all over the place but with IE
it messes up and wont wrap the text...
No, IE gets it right and FF gets it wrong. The width attribute <pre>, though defined in HTML specs, has usually been ignored by browsers, which is quite acceptable - it is just a suggestion. It is meant to specify the length of the longest line so that the browser can select a suitable font size, i.e. automatically reduce font size to make the content fit into the browser window, or perhaps reduce indentation that it otherwise uses for <pre> elements. This was a poor idea*) and left unimplemented, but it _is_ the defined meaning. It shall _not_ affect the rendering of the content as regards to division into lines. Ref.:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4
*) A browser can _calculate_ the length of the longest line. It is awkward to make _people_ count characters.
If you want text to wrap, why are you using the <pre> element, which by definition means _preformatted_ text, i.e. text that has already been divided into lines in a manner that shall be preserved in display? If you have problems with wrapping in <pre>, the odds are that the real problem is that you chose to use <pre>.
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