I'm using CSS (via JQuery , but not relevant to this question) to highlight certain elements within an HTML file: I'm using "pre" tags to separate out logical elements in my file, but I noticed that "pre" tags seem to leave newlines between elements.
Can I get rid of these using CSS ?
(Or what shall I use instead of "pre" tags? The text elements may contain HTML elements themeselves : which should not be rendered, and should be shown literally as source-code: hence my initial choice with "pre" tags)
Here's an example of the HTML I'm using: (Requires http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery for this example)
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.4.min.js">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<pre class="error">
This is an error line.
stack.trace.blah.blah
more.blah.blah
yadda.yadda.blah</pre>
<pre class="ok">
this is not an error line.it contains html
<html><head></head><body>hello</body></html></pre>
<pre class="error">
This is an error line.
stack.trace.blah.blah
more.blah.blah
yadda.yadda.blah</pre>
<pre class="ok">
<script type="text/javascript">
$("pre.error").css({"background-color":"red","color":"white","display":"block","padding":"0", "margin":"0"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
I'm using Firefox 3.6.12.
This is what the code above results in:
And this is simulated output of what I want (switched to yellow, only because I used my vim editor to this, pretend it's red!)
SOLUTION:
Is to use 'display:inline' for all PRE tags. (Previously I was only applying the 'display:inline' to the 'error' tags in the example above, and had forget to do the same for 'ok' pre tags.
That's because <pre>
has a default style display: block
, use in your css pre { display: inline}
as for your edit, you need to add margin: 0;
to ALL the pre blocks, not just the ones you want to style:
pre {
display: inline;
margin: 0;
}
You should try to avoid styling with JS whenever possible, but if you really must:
<script type="text/javascript">
$("pre.error").css({"background-color":"red","color":"white","display":"block","padding":"0", "margin":"0"});
$("pre").css({ "margin" : 0, "padding" : 0 })
</script>
The pre tag is a block level element, so it will behave like any other block level element and stack vertically (like paragraph, div, etc). You can set it to display:inline instead, I guess.
But better would be to use the <code>
tag, which is inline by default.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/code
You can force the pre tag to be a inline element by adding this in head:
<style type='text/css'> pre {display: inline;} </style>
You can fix with css as follow
pre {
width: 600px; /* specify width */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS3 browsers */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* 1999+ Mozilla */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4 thru 6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 and up */
word-wrap: break-word; /* IE 5.5+ and up */
}
You can convert HTML source to use special chars instead of < >
(like < >
). You can do this with notepad++ using TextFX Plugin (Encode HTML) or in eclipse you can do this with anyedit tools.
Why are you using jQuery for something that can be achieved via CSS?
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
pre {
display: block;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
pre.error {
background-color: red;
color: white;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<pre class="error">
This is an error line.
stack.trace.blah.blah
more.blah.blah
yadda.yadda.blah</pre>
<pre class="ok">
this is not an error line.it contains html
<html><head></head><body>hello</body></html></pre>
<pre class="error">
This is an error line.
stack.trace.blah.blah
more.blah.blah
yadda.yadda.blah</pre>
</body>
</html>
you can use padding:0
and margin:0
for pre
in css
pre { margin: 0; }
should give you the rendering in the second picture. Your snippet probably doesn't work because you don't remove the default margin from the pre.ok
.
Don't use pre, instead escape the characters you want to display literally. Like <
and >
for <
and >
.
When you render your page, you can use a function like htmlentities()
(PHP) to escape these characters for you.