Pre-formatted text

Sometimes you don't want a paragraph to be automatically formatted by the browser. For example, look at the following:

<p>
import java.io.*;
class Echo
{
  public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException
  {
    BufferedReader stdin = 
        new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader( System.in ) );

    String inData;

    System.out.println("Enter the data:");
    inData = stdin.readLine();

    System.out.println("You entered:" + inData );
  }
}
</p>

This will come out like this:

import java.io.*; class Echo { public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader( System.in ) ); String inData; System.out.println("Enter the data:"); inData = stdin.readLine(); System.out.println("You entered:" + inData ); } }

The browser made a nice, neat paragraph of that text. Not what you want. To tell the browser that a block of text is pre-formatted use the tags <pre> ... </pre>.