Re: displaying ascii art in HTML page?

m�spher (JT) wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> >Yun-Jung Jo wrote:
> >> I've been looking at ascii art samples on the web and I've noticed that
> >> they are enclosed either in <PRE> tag or <XMP> tag.
> >
> >You should not use <xmp> (it is deprecated).
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^
> what's this mean? -------------^^^^
> 

It means "you shouldn't use it".  :-)

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/conform.html#deprecated

   A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been
   outdated by newer constructs. Deprecated elements are
   defined in the reference manual in appropriate locations,
   but are clearly marked as deprecated. Deprecated elements
   may become obsolete in future versions of HTML.

> >> Just out of curiosity, are there any other HTML tags that are used to
> >> display ascii art?
> >
> >Why would you want that? Isn't one tag enough for you? ASCII art is
> >preformatted text, and <pre> is the html tag to use for that.
> 
> would <tt> work? or is that old and outdated too?
> 

No, <tt> won't work. At least not reliably. Sure, you'll get a
monospaced font with <tt> but the text won't be "fixed" and may wrap if
the window is too small.


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