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

The pre tag preserves all the white spaces you have used while writing in the body. Where as normally if you do not use pre it will display the text normally...(HTML will make the browser to neglect those white spaces) Here try this I have used the paragraph tag. Output:-

Here is my code:

def some_function

  return 'Hello, World!'

end

Here is my code:

def some_function

  return 'Hello, World!'

end