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Reputation: 37681

It is possible to embed plain text into HTML?

I need to embed a huge text file in plain text which contains a lot of information organized by newlines, tabulations and spaces. This text file does not have any html tags, it's just plain text.

I need to show it embedded into an HTML file, because I don't want to write thousands of tags (<br>, etc...) to reorganize the text, because if I just paste the plain text into a <b> tag into an HTML file, the text is shown as a only paragraph without newlines, spaces and tabulations. I'm not sure how to do this. I can't find any info about that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 817

Answers (2)

efreed
efreed

Reputation: 1091

Contents in a <pre> tag will make use of new lines, white space, and tabs.

If you need the letters to line up on top of each other like in a command line, you're wanting a "fixed width" font. You can take a look a the <tt> tag, or you'd have to set the font for that block to a fixed-width font (which would be a different question)

Upvotes: 3

Chuck Dries
Chuck Dries

Reputation: 1662

The HTML spec requires a block level (or in the case of <br>, an artificially line-breaking) tag to break lines. It specifically ignores line breaks and white space in the source, so if you want your raw text to keep its line breaks, find or write a script that converts the \n character to something that causes line breaks.

Upvotes: 0

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