Unless you can assure that lines don't wrap, you can't do that. However, <pre> tags are able to prevent wrapping; they preformat the text to your specifications, regardless of browser window size. That has a BIG disadvantage though. Consider someone using a screen smaller than the one for which your document was designed. The benefit of line numbering will be outweighed by the pain in the rear of having to horizontally scroll to read each line.

Nevertheless, you do see it done sometimes. See our own Craft section as an example of using <pre> tags, tables, etc., to create a formatting that is condusive to line numbering.


Dave

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Add line numbers to HTML by davido
in thread Add line numbers to HTML by Anonymous Monk

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