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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Apr 1998.
Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

Donovan <bak...@gwtc.net> wrote:

>Martin Atkins wrote:

>> I`ve been experimenting with ways to display the asciis on my websites, and I think the <PLAINTEXT>
>> tag works really well, It means you can have an HTML with the equivilant of a text file at the end,
>> no markup and no &lt; and &gt; required.

>> I was wondering if there are any browsers where this doesn`t work?

>Martin, 

>I use <pre> instead also, it seems to be the same. Hmmm? Neither one
>does much for centering though. *S*

With <pre> you still have to use &lt; of course. I thought <plaintext>
didn't do anything but suppress HTML interpretation, so that you would
have to do

<pre><plaintext>
ASCII art
</plaintext></pre>

(of course, it doesn't work the other way around since the <pre> won't
work inside the <plaintext>...)

John Savard

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Subject: Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?
Date: 1998/04/16
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