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aston on Feb 14, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obscure HTML tags that you should know and even us...

It's not a real tag anymore, but <xmp> was really cool. Everything between the start and end tag was presented verbatim, with no HTML parsing. Basically a lazy man's HTML escape in a fixed width font--good for pasting in code. We use it every now and then for our internal tools since Firefox is down with xmp.

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/x/xmp.htm

kd5bjo on Feb 14, 2009 [–]

How is this different from a <pre> tag?

blasdel on Feb 14, 2009 | | [–]

Markup is still parsed inside a <pre> tag. <xmp> is more like CDATA.

aston on Feb 14, 2009 | | [–]

<pre> does the formatting, but not the escaping.

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