CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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User
User

Reputation: 3782

Use of CODE tag in HTML, How to I get it to display the code?

Quick question, If I want to document some code on a basic HTML and put that within a CODE tag, how can I quickly convert the code between those tags when the page renders to display properly? I know I can write a javascript find and replace and search through the string over and over until its done replacing all the characters, but is there a better way?

Or, is there a jQuery way to do it if I need to use javascript?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2723

Answers (2)

Mike Griffith
Mike Griffith

Reputation: 1211

Sounds like you may be looking for syntax highlighting. Take a look at google's syntax highlihter

Upvotes: 2

Grant
Grant

Reputation: 12039

I think the <code> tag is more for displaying with a certain font, rather than layout. <code> seems to just use a monospaced font.

You might be looking for the <pre> tag (for pre formatted). That will preserve line breaks and spaces.

Unless the code you are trying to display is HTML code itself, then I think you'd have to change all the <'s to &lt;'s ahead of time

Upvotes: 7

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