[Mediawiki-l] Pre-like tag, with wrapping?

[Trevor Parscal]

I'm sure there's a template that you could use (on wikipedia) or make  
( on your own private wiki) which wraps your text in a div with some  
special CSS.

The pre tag means preformatted, which is why unlike other HTML tags it  
pays attention to whitespace like tabs new lines and more than one  
consecutive space. Using a div with a background color, border and  
padding would provide the wrapping you want plus any style you are  
after.

To integrate the HTML code into an article or template you will need  
to use the <nowiki> tags around the  HTML tags.

- Trevor

Sent from my iPod

On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Jelle De Loecker <skerit at kipdola.com> wrote:

> Good morning everyone,
>
> Sometimes I like to use <pre> to give a certain piece of text that  
> extra
> oomph, to emphasize it's a bit different from the other text.
> As you know, <pre> is meant to add text without wrapping it, but  
> that's
> a problem right now.
>
> Is there a tag that looks like <pre>'s formatting and actually wraps  
> the
> lines?
>
> I'm sure it must exist, but I have no clue what this type of object
> would be called...
>
> Greetings,
> Jelle De Loecker
>
>
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