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HTML Tag: pre

Preformatted text. Text where the whitespace (that is normally discarded by other elements) is as much a part of the content as the rest of the text. Commonly used to display computer code because it maintains nesting indentations.

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Example


<p>The basic structure of an HTML document:</p>
<pre>
<code>&lt;html&gt;</code>
	<code>&lt;head&gt;</code>
	<code>&lt;/head&gt;</code>
	<code>&lt;body&gt;</code>
		<code>[stuff]</code>
	<code>&lt;/body&gt;</code>
<code>&lt;/html&gt; </code>
</pre>