<xmp> HTML Tag
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- What does
<xmp> HTML Tag
do? - The <xmp> element was used to surround HTML example text that should be rendered without interpreting any HTML elements between the opening and closing <xmp> tags. The element was deprecated in HTML 3.2 and is now obsolete.
- Display
- inline
- Usage
- textual
<xmp>
was designed to render content exactly as typed, without compressing spaces. This was intended as a way to display code. However, this element was never fully supported and is now obsolete.
Read more about <xmp>
, and the reasons for its deprecation.