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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 Apr 1998.
Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

Donovan (bak...@gwtc.net) wrote:
> Martin Atkins wrote:
> > 
> > I`ve been experimenting with ways to display the asciis on my websites, and I think the <PLAINTEXT>
> > tag works really well, It means you can have an HTML with the equivilant of a text file at the end,
> > no markup and no &lt; and &gt; required.
> > 
> > I was wondering if there are any browsers where this doesn`t work?

> Martin, 

> I use <pre> instead also, it seems to be the same. Hmmm? Neither one
> does much for centering though. *S*

	<pre> works fine, but it requires &lt; and &gt;
	You can center your ASCII art if you do all lines with the
same size filling with blanks.
	<PLAINTEXT> is something I've never used ... I bet it's some new
feature not accepted with every browser!

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Subject: Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?
Date: 1998/04/18
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