Paul Hammond is wondering how to mark up blocks of code in HTML. He
references a few methods, such as <pre>...</pre>, or
<p><code>...</code></p>. His worries with the first method are that
preformatted text destroys layouts, and that it’s an uneasy mix of
presentation and markup. I can’t help the first, but I’m more prepared
to have a layout broken than I am to have code break onto two lines,
since an awful lot of languages are intolerant of that sort of thing. My
solution to this when I post code blocks is
<pre><code>...</code></pre>. I’ve seen people set \<code> to
display: block in stylesheets, but that breaks if you want to write
some code inline (as with that little CSS snippet just there).
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