Which fixed size (width) font are usable/recommendable ?

[Arthur Connor]

I want to embed some source code lines in an article on a web page.
As usual I want to use a fixed sized font for this souce code lines (read: the letters should
have all the same width).

The font normally used when I declare a <PRE>...</PRE> tag is very ugly.

Is there another font which I can use to display fixed size text ?

Arty

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

I want to embed some source code lines in an article on a web page.
As usual I want to use a fixed sized font for this souce code lines (read: the letters should
have all the same width).

The font normally used when I declare a <PRE>...</PRE> tag is very ugly.

Is there another font which I can use to display fixed size text ?

How will you know whether the code has been rendered in the font you
choose by your visitors' user agent?

<pre> has been deprecated, by the way. Try CSS:
http://tinyurl.com/2paay

 

[Whitecrest]

How will you know whether the code has been rendered in the font you
choose by your visitors' user agent?

Yo don't, but the real question is do I care?

 

[David Dorward]

<pre> has been deprecated, by the way.

Since when?

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

Since when?

Arse. I mis-read the spec., reading the bit about the "width"
attribute. My mistake - it's cream cheese.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Is there another font which I can use to display fixed size text ?

See the CodeStyle.org font survey for commonly installed fonts:

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml

I would recommend the following CSS:

pre {
font-family: "Lucida Console", monospace;
}

 

[Bob]

See the CodeStyle.org font survey for commonly installed fonts:

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml

I would recommend the following CSS:

pre {

}

Nice site.

I might expand that CSS a little:

"Lucida Console", "Andale Mono", "Courier New"

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I might expand that CSS a little:
"Lucida Console", "Andale Mono", "Courier New"

The OP was explicitly trying to avoid Courier! So why specify over the
generic monospace font?

 

[Sam Hughes]

The OP was explicitly trying to avoid Courier! So why specify over the
generic monospace font?

Whatever.

How about we throw in some more fixed-width fonts

"Andale Mono", "Lucida Console", "OCR A Extended", "Fixedsys",
"Terminal", "Courier", monospace;

Added Courier in there because it is slightly different than Courier New
.

Not sure about the beauty of Terminal and Fixedsys though .

 

[Bob]

The OP was explicitly trying to avoid Courier! So why specify over the
generic monospace font?

The reason I included Courier New is that it is actually a more
attractive font than Courier. Also, it is a last resort at
actually choosing a font instead of just picking up a default.