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

Specifically, the property you're looking at is:

white-space: pre

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/whitespace.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#white-space-prop