Re: <pre> versus <code> white-space:pre; when pasting

Michael Shell <[email protected]> wrote:

>Consider the XHTML document attached at the end of this post.
>When viewed under Firefox 1.0.5 on Linux, highlighting
>and pasting (into a text editor) the <pre> tag listing will
>preserve formatting (white space and line feeds). However, this
>is not true when doing the same with the <code> tag listing
>(it will all be pasted on one line with multiple successive spaces
>treated as a single space) despite the fact that "white-space:pre;"
>was invoked via CSS.
>
>Is this considered correct behavior?
>Do other browsers generally behave in this way?

Yes x 2.

>If so, it seems to me that it may prevent the use of the <code>
>tag in lieu of the <pre> tag for a lot of source code

<pre><code>foobar</code></pre>

>This should make for an interesting discussion

Hardly.

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Spartanicus