Using <pre> tags means you get to keep the same screen width all the time

But what it also means is that pages can become hideously wide if a piece of code happens to have a long line. <code> tags get parsed by the PM engine which inserts line breaks every 70 characters or so (it depends on your user settings). That's fine for people with big screens, but it's less nice to people on a 640x480.

On the other hand, using <code> tags for all text isn't such a good idea, as it usually means the font is smaller, and it makes the code hard to differentiate from the text.

[ ar0n -- want job (boston) ]

In reply to (ar0n) Re: code tags only for actual code? by ar0n
in thread code tags only for actual code? by mischief

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