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

If you are using this on a code block like:

  
    ...
  

You can just use css like this to offset that large amount of white space in the front.

pre code {
  position: relative;
  left: -95px; // or whatever you want
}