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The pre element provides a mechanism to allow authors to intentionally disable the browser's automatic text layout algorithm.

The pre element honors the appearance of leading whitespace and line breaks in the writing.

Poets, mathematicians, software authors and others need a way to format text without relying on the concept of a paragraph. The pre element is the solution.

Example

h1 (Just Like) Starting Over

figure {
    pre {
        Our life together
        Is so precious together
        We have grown, we have grown
        Although our love is still special
        Let’s take a chance and fly away
        Somewhere alone
         
        It’s been too long since we took the time
        No-one’s to blame, I know time flies so quickly
        But when I see you darling
        It’s like we both are falling in love again
        It’ll be just like starting over
        Starting over
    
        Everyday we used to make it love
        Why can’t we be making love nice and easy
        It’s time to spread our wings and fly
        Don’t let another day go by my love
        It’ll be just like starting over
        Starting over
         
        Why don’t we take off alone
        Take a trip somewhere far, far away
        We’ll be together all alone again
        Like we used to in the early days
        Well, well, well darling
         
        It’s been too long since we took the time
        No-one’s to blame, I know time flies so quickly
        But when I see you darling
        It’s like we both are falling in love again
        It’ll be just like starting over
        Starting over
         
        Our life together
        Is so precious together
        We have grown, we have grown
        Although our love still is special
        Let’s take a chance and fly away somewhere
         
        Starting over (over and over and over)
    }
    figcaption John Lennon (Recorded: August 9, 1980)
}

The pre element