"Preformatted Text"
The PreFormatted style, which is named <PRE> in HTML, is used to display a block of text in a fixed-width font. One of its main uses has been to put things in a table format without having to use the HTML table formatting specifiers.
R1C1 R1C2 R1C3 R2C1 R2C2 R2C3
The Typewriter style, which is named <TT> in HTML, displays text in a fixed-width typewriter font.
The Sample style, which is named <SAMP> in HTML, displays text in a monospaced style.
Horizontal Bars
The style that can be used to separate parts of a document is the Horizontal Rule, which is named <HR> in HTML. It looks like this:
Comments
Comments which the browser will not display can be inserted anywhere in the HTML document. This is sometimes useful for editing purposes, for example, clarifying nested tables. Although "Comment Text" will not be displayed by the browser, it can be seen via View/DocumentSource. Comments are delimited by a less-than-symbol, exclaimation-point, dash, dash character string to begin the comment, and, a dash, dash, greater-than-symbol character string to terminate the comment, as follows:
<!--THIS TEXT WOULD NOT BE DISPLAYED-->Note: comments cannot be nested.
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