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<h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2>

<p>The HTML <span style="font-family:courier new">&lt;samp&gt;</span> element is an element intended to identify sample output from a computer program. It is usually displayed in the browser's default monotype font (such as Lucida Console).</p>

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   <th scope="row"><a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories" title="HTML/Content_categories">Content categories</a></th>
   <td><a href="/en/HTML/Content_categories#Flow_content" style="line-height: 22px;" title="en/HTML/Content categories#Flow content">Flow content</a><span style="line-height:22px">,&nbsp;</span><a href="/en/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content" style="line-height: 22px;" title="en/HTML/Content categories#Phrasing content">phrasing content</a>, palpable content.</td>
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   <th scope="row">Permitted content</th>
   <td><a href="/en/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content" style="line-height: 22px;" title="en/HTML/Content categories#Phrasing content">Phrasing content</a>.</td>
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   <th scope="row">Tag omission</th>
   <td>{{no_tag_omission}}</td>
  </tr>
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   <th scope="row">Permitted parent elements</th>
   <td>Any element that accepts&nbsp;<a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content" title="HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content">phrasing content</a>.</td>
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   <th scope="row">DOM interface</th>
   <td>{{domxref("HTMLElement")}}</td>
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 </tbody>
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<h2 id="Attributes">Attributes</h2>

<p><span style="line-height:21px">This element only includes the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Global_attributes" style="line-height: 21px;" title="HTML/Global attributes">global attributes</a><span style="line-height:21px">.</span></p>

<h2 id="DOM_Interface">DOM Interface</h2>

<p>This element implements the <code><a href="/en/DOM/element" title="en/DOM/element">HTMLElement</a></code> interface.</p>

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<p><strong>Implementation note: </strong>up to Gecko 1.9.2 inclusive, Firefox implements the <a href="/en/DOM/span" title="en/DOM/span"><span style="font-family:courier new">HTMLSpanElement</span></a> interface for this element.</p>
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<h2 id="Example">Example</h2>

<pre class="brush: html">
&lt;p&gt;Regular text. &lt;samp&gt;This is sample text.&lt;/samp&gt; Regular text.&lt;/p&gt;
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<h3 id="Result">Result</h3>

<p>Regular text. <samp>This is sample text.</samp> Regular text.</p>

<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

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   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
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   <td>{{SpecName('HTML WHATWG', 'text-level-semantics.html#the-samp-element', '&lt;samp&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
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   <td>{{SpecName('HTML5 W3C', 'text-level-semantics.html#the-samp-element', '&lt;samp&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML5 W3C')}}</td>
   <td>&nbsp;</td>
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   <td>{{SpecName('HTML4.01', 'struct/text.html#h-9.2.1', '&lt;samp&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML4.01')}}</td>
   <td>&nbsp;</td>
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 </tbody>
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<h2 id="Note">Note</h2>

<p>A CSS rule can be defined for the <code>samp</code> selector to override the browser's default font face. Preferences set by the user might take precedence over the specified CSS.</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

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 <li><a href="/en/HTML/Element/code" title="en/HTML/Element/code">HTML Code Element</a></li>
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<div>{{ HTMLRef }}</div>