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    CHAPTER 6: Manipulating the Display of T... > CONTROLLING HOW WHITE SPACE IS HANDL...

    CONTROLLING HOW WHITE SPACE IS HANDLED

    The white-space property allows you to control text formatting in the source code of the web document. The following table outlines the keyword values of the white-space property as of CSS 2.

    PROPERTY VALUE
    white-space normal | pre | nowrap
    Initial value: normal

    The white-space property is mainly used with the pre keyword value, and it used to output content exactly as it appears in your markup.

    The following code snippet is an example of the white-space: pre; declaration applied to a <code> element.

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    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN”
    “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”>
<html lang=“en”>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8”>
    <title>FIGURE 6-15</title>
    <style type=“text/css”>
        code {
             white-space: pre;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

<code>
&lt;script type=“text/javascript”&gt;
    document.documentElement.className = ‘js’;
&lt;/script&gt;
</code>

</body>
</html>

      

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