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[RESOLVED] white-space: pre; and Internet Explorer

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May 04.2009

I have a <code> element with display: block, and I need it to both preserve white space (pre) and not wrap (nowrap). Now, if I specify white-space: pre, Firefox 3 does both, which is excellent. Internet Explorer (7, but I bet 8, too, judging from [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531182(VS.85).aspx]this page[/url]), on the other hand, only preserves white space. According to [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop]standards[/url], Firefox is right. Is there any way I can make this work on Internet Explorer, too? Thanks ?

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@ZnupiauthorMay 05.2009 — Anyone knows? Maybe there's some sort of IE-specific trick? :rolleyes:
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@FangMay 05.2009 — Do you have an example where it doesn't work?
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@ZnupiauthorMay 05.2009 — http://it-ride.blogspot.com/ -- look at the code containers.
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@FangMay 05.2009 — #main-wrapper code.syntax {word-wrap:normal;}
#main-wrapper cascade apparently causes the line breaking
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@ZnupiauthorMay 05.2009 — Ah, thanks, that seems to have done it!
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