The reason why the tag is used in such cases is to maintain the formatting of the text. With the , you can easily display on your browser the format used in the code editor. So, it is a formatting method that helps you structure your elements without having to go through the stress of writing loads of CSS.
Solution 1 :
Solution 2 :
pre, xmp, plaintext, listing {
display: block;
font-family: monospace;
white-space: pre;
margin: 1__qem 0
}
<pre> tag, it can be used alone, It is a block-level element and cannot be used in ‘inline elements’. It is just a tag, it’s just preset with different styles. In addition, there are no special regulations as to how and where to use it.
Problem :
Recently I’ve come across a few ‘tables’ formatted with the ‘pre’ tag where the actual table is inside of one ‘td’ cell. Why would anyone be constructing a ‘table’ this way instead of just using ‘tr’ and ‘td’ tags and populating the table data into cells? What are the advantages if any?
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<tr><td colspan="2"><pre><div style="font-size:12px"><b>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pos Car Competitor/Team Driver Vehicle Cap CL Laps Fastest...Lap Gap</b>
1 111 Goodwin and Kenyon Group Cameron Hill (ACT) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 11 1:22.3686*
2 36 Phase 8 Cooper Murray (VIC) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 14 13 1:22.4557 0:00.0871
3 100 Timken Dale Wood (Vic) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 8 1:22.5288 0:00.1602
4 38 Wall Racing David Wall (NSW) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 14 14 1:22.7707 0:00.4021
5 8 Porsche Centre Melbourne Nick McBride (VIC) Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 11 1:22.8454 0:00.4768
6 77 Sonic/Bob Jane T-Marts/PSA Michael Almond (SA) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 11 1:22.9144 0:00.5458
7 777 Sonic/Bob Jane T-Marts/Exedy Max Vidau (SA) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 13 13 1:23.2087 0:00.8401
8 34 Hyundai Forklifts Aus Duvashen Padayachee NSW Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 12 1:23.2475 0:00.8789
9 15 Volante Rosso Josh Hunt (QLD) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 13 13 1:23.2663 0:00.8977
10 23 Lago Cold Stores/Dayco David Russell (QLD) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 12 1:23.2852 0:00.9166
11 78 Sonic/Barbagallo/Porsche Centr Aaron Love (WA) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 13 13 1:23.3455 0:00.9769
12 96 Brennan IT Joey Mawson (NSW) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 9 1:23.8414 0:01.4728
13 12 HeliMods Harrison Jones (QLD) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 P 12 12 1:23.8630 0:01.4944
14 4 Grove Group Stephen Grove (VIC) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 12 12 1:24.0758 0:01.7072
15 80 Max Twigg Max Twigg (VIC) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 11 11 1:24.3102 0:01.9416
16 22 BMF Racing Dean Cook (VIC) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 13 11 1:24.4770 0:02.1084
17 6 No Second Chance Tim Miles (NSW) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 9 9 1:24.7753 0:02.4067
18 9 Hallmarc Marc Cini (VIC) Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 3996 A 12 11 1:27.4027 0:05.0341
19 35 RENTCORP FORKLIFTS Indiran Padayachee (NSW) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 12 7 1:27.6902 0:05.3216
20 222 Scott Taylor Motorsport Scott Taylor (QLD) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 12 11 1:28.2614 0:05.8928
21 30 Sparesbox David Ryan (NSW) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 12 11 1:28.9762 0:06.6076
22 68 Wall Racing Greg Ward (NSW) Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3996 A 12 11 1:32.0664 0:09.6978
Fastest Lap Av.Speed Is 141kph, 109% Of First 1 Is 1:29.7818
Current Practice/Qualify Record Is 1:21.2952 Set On 02/03/2018 By Jaxon Evans (QLD) In A Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
R=under lap record by greatest margin, r=under lap record, *=fastest lap time
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</pre>
</td></tr>
</table>
Comments
Comment posted by Ry-
A few where? The answer as far as good document-writing practice goes is “never”, though. (A plain-text version of a table can be useful, but that’s what links are for.)