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<h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2>
<p>The <em>HTML Plaintext Element</em> (<span style="font-family: Courier New;">&lt;plaintext&gt;</span>) renders text following the start tag without interpreting the HTML. It doesn't have an end tag as everything following it is no more considered HTML</p>
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  <strong>Note: </strong>Do not use this element.&nbsp;
  <ul>
    <li>It is deprecated since HTML 2 and was neither implemented by all browsers, nor in a consistent way. Even more it is obsoleted in HTML 5 and may be rendered by conforming user-agents as the {{ HTMLElement("pre") }} element, which will interpret the internal html !</li>
    <li>If the {{ HTMLElement("plaintext") }} element is the first element in the page (except for non-displayed element), do not use HTML at all. Configure your server to send your page with the <span style="font-family: Courier New;">text/plain</span> <a href="/en/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types" title="en/Properly Configuring Server MIME Types">MIME-type</a>.</li>
    <li>Instead use the {{ HTMLElement("pre") }} element or if semantically adequate the {{ HTMLElement("code") }} element, eventually escaping the HTML '<span style="font-family: Courier New;">&lt;</span>' and '<span style="font-family: Courier New;">&gt;</span>' so that they don't get interpreted.</li>
    <li>A monospaced font can also be obtained on a simple {{ HTMLElement("div") }} element, by applying an adequate <a href="/en/CSS" title="en/CSS">CSS</a> style using <span style="font-family: Courier New;">monospace</span> as the generic-font value in a {{ cssxref("font-family") }} property.</li>
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<h2 id="Attributes">Attributes</h2>
<p>This element has no other attributes than the <a class="new " href="/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes" rel="internal" title="en/HTML/global attributes">global attributes</a>, common to all elements.</p>
<h2 id="DOM_interface">DOM interface</h2>
<p>This element implements the {{domxref('HTMLElement')}} interface.</p>
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  <p><strong>Implementation note: </strong>up to Gecko 1.9.2 inclusive, Firefox implements the interface {{domxref('HTMLSpanElement')}} for this element.</p>
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<h2 id="See_Also">See Also</h2>
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  <li>The {{ HTMLElement("pre") }} and {{ HTMLElement("code") }} elements to be used instead.</li>
  <li>The {{ HTMLElement("listing") }} and {{ HTMLElement("xmp") }} elements, similar to {{ HTMLElement("plaintext") }} but also obsolete.</li>
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