pre {
 white-space: pre-wrap;       /* css-3 */
 white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
 white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
 white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
 word-wrap: break-word;       /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}
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pre tag

... is super wide, when I view it with Opera. It is okay with IE.

PRE tags do not stop being 'wide' when you switch browsers.

(I brought this up, as this happened quite often recently.)

Perhaps you turned on "auto" code wrapping recently? Please read Re^2: Monastery Gates page is too wide (causes), for my most recent discussion of this.

I am all for the <pre> tag here at the Monastery. Keeping with the spirit of Perl, there is more than one way to do it. I can post DATA with <pre> tags and CODE with <code> tags. Notice how the d/l code link only displays what i want it to display:

<xml>
   <foo>bar</foo>
</xml>

print while <DATA>;
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Just my two cents. Plus, i'd have to fix a lot of broken nodes if you took away my <pre> tag. ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

There's a social reason, which I won't go into, as jeffa did a good job explaining it already. There's also a technical reason: we /first/ convert code tags to pre tags, /then/ we check for allowed tags. Twere it only easy to change...

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The problem is not only that it's wide, but also that the code can not be downloaded easily.