My name is Gordo

@gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

I don't know who needs to hear this (I do though, and it's evidently tthe vast majority of people designing for the web), but please for the love of god, when using pre-formatted blocks (<pre>) without wrapping (so virtually every time), either think about whether your body container is making the best use of the available horizontal space, or just do something like this:
css-tricks.com/considerations-

This has annoyed me for years. I have custom stylesheets that make <pre> and <code> blocks in the wild more bearable, at least some of the time, but it would be nice to believe that more of the people who design and/or publish for the web actually cared about the user experience enough to do something about it on their end.

#webdesign #webdev #frontend

Considerations for styling the `pre` tag | CSS-Tricks - Considerations for styling the `pre` tag | CSS-Tricks

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Considerations for styling the `pre` tag | CSS-Tricks

You've probably used it. It's that very special tag in HTML that allows for the white space within the tags to actually be honored. For example, four spaces

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