tag making browsers close paragraphs

Question

I\'m having an issue with the HTML below:

  
    
 
        Some paragraph text 
        

        

Answer 1

Get rid of the pre tag altogether, and just give your span style="white-space:pre". See this page for a description of other white-space options.

<pre> is basically saying <div style="white-space:pre">; what you want is <span style="white-space:pre">.

Answer 2

Paragraph tags cannot contain block-level elements:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.3.1

pre is a block level element.

You could instead set the CSS style white-space: pre on your span if you desired to have pre-like behavior in an inline element.

Answer 3

pre is a block level element, it isn't allowed to be inside a span if memory serves right.

You can find out by validating your HTML.