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Revision: 40163
at January 27, 2011 04:05 by paul66
Initial Code 
pre {
padding: 15px;
white-space: pre; /* CSS2 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS 2.1 */
white-space: pre-line; /* CSS 3 (and 2.1 as well, actually) */
word-wrap: break-word; /* IE */
}
Initial URL 
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/snippets-html5-boilerplate/www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/05/formatting-quoted-code-in-blog-posts-css21-white-space-pre-wrap/
Initial Description 
This snippet simply makes the text wrap when it reaches the walls of its container, in this case, the pre tag, whilst still preserving line breaks and white space cross browser.
Initial Title 
Formatting quoted code
Initial Tags 
css, text
Initial Language 
CSS