HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/code

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 More info Tag phrase elements on W3Schools deep