CSS Properties: How to specify the width of the content area of an element

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:55 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
  <head>
  <title>How to specify the width of the content area of an element</title>
  <style type="text/css">
 div {
    width:60%;
}
</style>
  </head>
  <body>
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</body>
  </html>

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How to show multiline text in a table cell?

You want to use the CSS white-space:pre applied to the appropriate <td>. To do this to all table cells, for example:

td { white-space:pre }

Alternatively, if you can change your markup, you can use a <pre> tag around your content. By default web browsers use their user-agent stylesheet to apply the same white-space:pre rule to this element.

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