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Summary
The HTML Example Element (<xmp>
) renders text between the start and end tags without interpreting the HTML in between and using a monospaced font. The HTML2 specification recommended that it should be rendered wide enough to allow 80 characters per line.
Note: Do not use this element.
- It has been deprecated since HTML3.2 and was not implemented in a consistent way. It was completely removed from the language in HTML5.
- Use the {{ HTMLElement("pre") }} element or, if semantically adequate, the {{ HTMLElement("code") }} element instead. Note that you will need to escape the '
<
' character as '<
' to make sure it is not interpreted as markup. - A monospaced font can also be obtained on any element, by applying an adequate CSS style using
monospace
as the generic-font value for the {{ cssxref("font-family") }} property.
Attributes
This element has no other attributes than the global attributes, common to all elements.
DOM interface
This element implements the HTMLElement
interface.
Implementation note: up to Gecko 1.9.2 inclusive, Firefox implements the HTMLSpanElement interface for this element.
See Also
- The {{ HTMLElement("pre") }} and {{ HTMLElement("code") }} elements to be used instead.
- The {{ HTMLElement("plaintext") }} and {{ HTMLElement("listing") }} elements, similar to {{ HTMLElement("xmp") }} but also obsolete.
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