Wrapping text between <xmp>

[Arnoud Oortwijk]

suppose following code

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<table border="1" width="256">

<tr>


</td></tr>

</table>

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I want to show everything between <xmp> and </xmp> in other words I don't
want the JavaScript to be executed. But I also want the table to be no wider
than 256 and the text to be wrapped.

How can this be done?

All help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Arnoud

 

[Steve Pugh]

suppose following code

I'd rather not...

<table border="1" width="256">
<tr>

</td></tr>
</table>

Looks like you're using a table for layout. Don't.

<xmp> was marked as obsolete in HTML 2.0 and doesn't exist at all in
modern versions of HTML. You can not expect browsers to support <xmp>
for ever. The code above doesn't stop Opera 7, for example, from
parsing the JavaScript.

I want to show everything between <xmp> and </xmp> in other words I don't
want the JavaScript to be executed. But I also want the table to be no wider
than 256 and the text to be wrapped.

How can this be done?

<div style="width: 256px; border: 1px solid black; padding:
0.5em;"><code>&lt;script language="JavaScript"&gt; window.location =
"http://www.disney.com"; &lt;/script&gt;</code></div>

Obviously you can move the styles into a stylesheet.

The <code> element just marks this up as computer code - most browsers
will display it in a monospaced font, but otherwise it will have no
effect on rendering (so unlike with <xmp> or <pre> the text will
wrap).

Including a few spaces in the code will also help it to wrap better.

Converting the < to &lt; makes them text and not the start of a tag.
There's no actual need to convert > to &gt; in most cases (including
this one) but it does no harm either and there may be browser bugs out
there that make it better safe than sorry to do so.

Steve