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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 {{domxref('HTMLElement')}} interface.
Implementation note: up to Gecko 1.9.2 inclusive, Firefox implements the {{domxref('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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