Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?
From John Savard <jsa...@teneerf.edmonton.ab.ca>
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· 16 Apr 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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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 < and > 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 < 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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