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width attribute (pre)

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Specifies the preferred count of characters for each line in a pre element. If a line is longer than the specified character count, the browser will try to wrap it.

Use the width attribute together with the white-space style property in Opera. The width attribute is equivalent to the cols attribute in Firefox.

For a cross-browser solution, use style properties for similar functionality (see Example 2).

JavaScript page for this attribute: width. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

Integer that sets the count of characters.

Default: this attribute has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the width attribute:

<head>
    <style>
        .wrapForPre {
            white-space: pre-wrap;       /* CSS-3 */
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <pre class="wrapForPre" width="15">The preferred count of characters is 15 for each line. </pre>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates a cross-browser solution instead of the width attribute:

<head>
    <style>
        .wrapForPre {
             white-space: pre-wrap;
             word-wrap: break-word;
             width: 130px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <pre class="wrapForPre">The preferred width is 130px for this field. </pre>
</body>