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Summary

The <xmp> HTML element renders text between the start and end tags without interpreting the HTML in between and using a monospaced font. The HTML2 specification recommended that it should be rendered wide enough to allow 80 characters per line.

[!NOTE] Do not use this element.

• It has been deprecated since HTML3.2 and was not implemented in a consistent way. It was completely removed from current HTML.
• Use the {{HTMLElement("pre")}} element or, if semantically adequate, the {{HTMLElement("code")}} element instead. Note that you will need to escape the < character as < and the & character as & to make sure they are not interpreted as markup.
• A monospaced font can also be obtained on any element, by applying an adequate CSS style using monospace as the generic-font value for the {{cssxref("font-family")}} property.

Attributes

This element has no other attributes than the global attributes, common to all elements.

DOM interface

This element implements the {{domxref('HTMLElement')}} interface.

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Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• The {{HTMLElement("pre")}} and {{HTMLElement("code")}} elements to be used instead.
• The {{HTMLElement("plaintext")}} element, similar to <xmp> but also obsolete.