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HTML pre tags are used to format text just as it is written, whitespace and all. However, you may want to allow long lines of text/code to wrap.
The following CSS, when applied to your pre tags will allow for lines to be wrapped when extending beyond the width of the containing element.
pre {
overflow-x: auto;
white-space: pre-wrap;
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
white-space: -pre-wrap;
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
word-wrap: break-word;
}Example:
The following is some text within a pre tag. Note that when the container is not long enough, the lines will wrap.
<p id="my_p" class="my_p">This is an example of some really long code that we want to show as written; however, if it needs to wrap it will wrap.</p>
<p id="my_p" class="my_p">Note that whitespace
is
still
respected as we wrote it.
</p>
CSS Notes:
- The “inherit”, “initial” and “unset” keywords can be used with any CSS property to set its value
- In CSS there are many ways to express a color value in a property
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