Re: The <pre> element

Thanks, all. Where it didn't behave as I expected was when I included code snippets. 

<pre><code> <h2>H2</h2> </code></pre>

and it rendered "H2" instead of the "<h2>H2</h2>". 

This would be an example:


This is from Dreamweaver, but FireFox and IE treat it the same. To make the code appear as text I had to mark it up with &alt; l&gt; and <br />:



Mike 


    On Thursday, December 3, 2015 2:29 PM, John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com> wrote:
 

 #yiv7980077205 -- filtered {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}#yiv7980077205 filtered {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}#yiv7980077205 p.yiv7980077205MsoNormal, #yiv7980077205 li.yiv7980077205MsoNormal, #yiv7980077205 div.yiv7980077205MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv7980077205 a:link, #yiv7980077205 span.yiv7980077205MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv7980077205 a:visited, #yiv7980077205 span.yiv7980077205MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv7980077205 span.yiv7980077205EmailStyle17 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv7980077205 span.yiv7980077205EmailStyle18 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv7980077205 .yiv7980077205MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;}#yiv7980077205 filtered {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv7980077205 div.yiv7980077205WordSection1 {}#yiv7980077205 Hi Mike,  I did a quick test with this, and it worked as expected in FF & IE.  <!doctype html><html lang="en"><head>  <meta charset="utf-8">    <title>Testing the PRE element</title>  <meta name="description" content="Test File: [insert Title]">  <meta name="author" content="John Foliot - Deque Systems Inc."></head>  <body><h1>Testing the &lt;pre&gt; element</h1><p>This is paragraph text</p><pre>This  is        &lt;pre&gt;  content</pre>  </body></html>  Not sure what else to suggest – can you point us to an example where this wasn’t working properly?  JF      From: Gunderson, Jon R [mailto:jongund@illinois.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:27 PM
To: Mike Elledge <melledge@yahoo.com>; Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Cc: GLWAI Guidelines WG Org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: RE: The <pre> element  PRE element is part of the HTML 5.1 spec:http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/semantics.html#the-pre-element       From: Mike Elledge [mailto:melledge@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 12:06 PM
To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Cc: GLWAI Guidelines WG Org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: The <pre> element  Hi Steve--  When I inserted an example of code within <pre> and </pre> both FF and IE treated it as if it were part of a website. Adding the <code> element had no effect.   Mike
On Dec 3, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
  On 3 December 2015 at 16:17, Mike Elledge <melledge@yahoo.com> wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that <pre> is no longer supported by browsers?
  I haven't, what do you mean by not supported?
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Regards

SteveFCurrent Standards Work @W3C

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