The ‹pre› tag is used to display preformatted text or code snippet to a web page. Some web design related blogs would use simple plugin that easily post syntax-highlighted code with its complete functionality (ie: view source, copy to clipboard, print). However, you can style this ‹pre› element to appear neat, stylish and usable by having deep understanding of how this web element works especially in different browsers. Here are some tutorials and resources about ‹pre› Tags Styling to get you start with.

Styling Code Snippets with CSS by Soh Tanaka

Beautify Your ‘pre’ Tags – by Evan of arsgrafik.com

Perfect Pre Tags – by Jeff Starr of Perishable Press

Auto highlight text inside pre tags using jQuery by Eoin Gallagher of Magp.ie

Using the code and pre Tags for Code and to Highlight Text – by Mike Nichols ofThesis Theme Tools

Making preformated pre text wrap in CSS3, Mozilla, Opera and IE
HTML Pre Tag

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