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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 3 Sep 1999.
Re: displaying ascii art in HTML page?

Re: displaying ascii art in HTML page?

From m�spher@jt.org (m�spher (JT)) · alt.ascii-art · 3 Sep 1999 00:00 · View full thread · report
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:53:06 +0200, Veronica Karlsson
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<37D...@earthling.net>:

>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? -------------^^^^

>> 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 or is that old and outdated too?

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