Prabhath - <code> is an inline element, so while is should probably be included somewhere in marking up code, you need something else on the outside of it to create the block. <pre> is semantically pretty sound for this, since code is pre-formatted and some languages are white-space sensitive, for example.
Vaska - Unfortunately there's nothing in the CSS2 spec that I know of to do what you want (see: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop). You can either obey the white-space in the source code or automatically wrap to the box, but not both. The equivalent part of the CSS Level 3 spec is massively improved though; providing additional white-space values and additional properties for controlling individual parts of white-space handling. "white-space" itself now effectively sets different combinations of values for these new properties. I have no idea what Opera/Firefox/Safari/K support is like for this yet, but I believe that the text module is pretty stable spec wise, so expect some implementations sooner rather than later, if not already. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space If implementations do exist, you might be able to compromise your design by using a CSS2 compatible white-space setting and overflow scrolling for any long lines, then set the CSS3 value afterwards for better handling in newer browsers as and when they support it. Cheers, Ben On 5/31/05, Prabhath Sirisena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to make a page that will display some source code. The PRE > > tag works very will with retaining \t and \n but I can not find a way > > to make it wrap words. Words fly off the monitor... > > Shouldn't you be using the code tag instead? It's a semantically better > option. > > However, the problem will still remain. > > Prabhath > http://nidahas.com > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- http://www.ben-ward.co.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
