Sometimes you don't want a block of text to be filled and justified like a paragraph.
Sometimes you may want to keep all the spaces and returns exactly as they are, as in a table like this, where you want everything to properly display in columns:
Date Holiday
Oct 31 Halloween
Dec 25 Christmas
Jan 1 New Year's Day
(Press the \ key to view the HTML source.)
This is the same text, without using the tag for preformatted text:
Date Holiday Oct 31 Halloween Dec 25 Christmas Jan 1 New Year's Day
Using preformatted text tags is an easy way to display large tables like the spreadsheet below:.
FRUIT Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Bananas 85 71 105 89 92 110 96 84 72 75 79 84
Grapes 17 19 16 11 12 9 8 9 12 14 17 16
Oranges 501 423 440 372 420 432 490 510 522 503 488 471
Figs 1 1 2 3 3 2 3 1 - - - 2
Dates 2 - - 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 1 1
Lemons 11 8 9 10 11 13 11 9 8 7 6 9
Grapefruit 105 89 92 110 96 84 72 75 79 84 93 101
But what happened here? The mess below was a copy of the same spreadsheet. Press \ a few times to see the source code, and see if you can find out what is wrong...
Didn't find it? Study the tags carefully...
Using preformatted text is an easy way to display a table in HTML. Just insert a <pre> before the table text and a </pre> after it.
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Last modified 1996/04/27 22:59:18 GMT by helpdoc