How to change a span to look like a pre with CSS?

Question

Is it possible to to change a tag (or

) to preformat its contents like a

 tag would using only CSS?         


        

Answer 1

Look at the W3C CSS2.1 Default Style Sheet or the CSS2.2 Working Draft. Copy all the settings for PRE and put them into your own class.

pre {
    display: block;
    unicode-bidi: embed;
    font-family: monospace;
    white-space: pre;
}