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HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/code
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Use
With the code element you can define, as the name says, code. This could be any code, PHP, C++, HTML anything. Anywhere you have some code in a line of text you should use a code element to indicate it, e.g.
The html element must contain exactly one body element.
Using the element consistently allows you to specify a special layout in CSS for code.
If you are writing an article that uses code you will probably want to use the related elements:
var a variable in computer code;
kbd text the reader should type at the keyboard;
samp sample output from a program or script.
Example
<code><?php echo 'Hello World!';?></code>
Multi-line blocks of code should be wrapped in a pre element to preserve formatting.
<pre>
<code>
// Prints the authors' names as
// surname, forename
for (Iterator i = authorList.iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
Person author = (Person)i.next();
System.out.println(author.surname() + ", " + author.forename());
}
</code>
</pre>
Standard attributes
class
dir
id
lang
style
title
xml:lang
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