The <div style="white-space: pre;"> idea doesn't work like <pre> does. Some things don't show up at all when you have the div inside of a template. Also, if you start a line with a space it puts a border around it anyway.

Look at how this renders.

<div style="white-space: pre;">a b c d e f g h i</div>

Looks like I'll have to go the class route.

It may be easier moving the styled <pre> into a class rather than creating a new <pre> style class and explicitly undoing all of the styling.

~Eric

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dantman Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:18 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] <pre> without styling

Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote:

Is there a way to enclose stuff in <pre> </pre> tags and have them rendered without the box?

The box is nice sometimes, but not so nice other times. I would like

to

selectively use it.

Thanks, ~Eric

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Not specifically, but you can achieve a similar effect just with styles.

The only thing that really makes a pre act the way it does is white-space: pre; so if you use <div style="white-space: pre;">Pre text</div> it will act like a HTML pre tag but it won't add the styling that MediaWiki adds to pre tags. Alternately you could create a .nopre css class which would reverse the styling of the pre defined in the Monobook's css and use <pre class="nopre">Pre text</pre>.

~Daniel Friesen of The Gaiapedia and Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project

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