Remember when I said that the browser doesn't understand formatting, it just displays text in a steady stream? Kind of like this...
<body> ///\\___ (@ @) +----oOO----(_)-----------+ | BARRY GOLDWATER | | for | | President | +-----------------oOO-----+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo </body>
Well, with the <pre> (preformat) tag, we can put a stop to that and have things displayed the way we type them.
<body> <pre> ///\\___ (@ @) +----oOO----(_)-----------+ | BARRY GOLDWATER | | for | | President | +-----------------oOO-----+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo </pre> </body>
Notice that a monospaced font is used.
The last tag we're going to discuss is a comment.
<body> <!--This is a comment.--> This is not. A comment can be placed anywhere in the document and the browser will ignore everything inside the brackets. You can insert hidden messages, <!--Hi Mom!--> notes to yourself, <!--Pick up milk--> or write a helpful message to someone looking at the source of your page.<!--Copy anything off me and you're dead meat!--> </body>
Just to be absolutely clear, the comment must start with <!-- and end with -->
You can (usually) even put other html tags in a comment and they will be ignored. The browser will just keep ignoring everything until it sees a -->
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