How to preserve whitespace indentation of text enclosed in HTML tags excluding the current indentation level of the tag in the document?

Question

I\'m trying to display my code on a website but I\'m having problems preserving the whitespace indentation correctly.

For instance given the following snippet:

Answer 1

I also found that if you're using haml you can use the preserve method. For example:

preserve yield

This will preserve the whitespace in the produced yield which is usually markdown containing the code blocks.