Quick CSS tip for those who tend to write their longer perlmonks posts in a text editor rather than in a textarea field.

Add the following to the top of your HTML while editing:

<style type="text/css">
code {
    display: block;
    white-space: pre;
    color: red;
}

p > code {
    display: inline;
}
</style>

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In a vaguely CSS compliant browser it will cause code blocks to be displayed as pre-formatted blocks, unless they're inside a paragraph tag, where they're displayed inline. I also colour them red, but that's just for taste.

This allows me to happily sit in my editor and see a better approximation of what will appear online in the preview window.

(and don't forget to remove the style tags before you post online)

In reply to CSS tip for offline perlmonks writing by adrianh

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


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