ASCII art in HTML

Mladek picture Mladek · Nov 9, 2009 · Viewed 55.2k times · Source

What could I do to make it print like it looks in the HTML document in the web browser?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        ###### #    #   ##   #    # #####  #      ######
        #       #  #   #  #  ##  ## #    # #      #      
        #####    ##   #    # # ## # #    # #      ##### 
        #        ##   ###### #    # #####  #      #      
        #       #  #  #    # #    # #      #      #      
        ###### #    # #    # #    # #      ###### ######
    </body>
</html>

Gives:

# # ## # # ##### # ###### # # # # # ## ## # # # # ##### ## # # # ## # # # # > ##### # ## ###### # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # # # # ###### ######

Answer

John Fiala picture John Fiala · Nov 9, 2009

Use the <pre> tag! Put it before and after your EXAMPLE.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <pre>
###### #    #   ##   #    # #####  #      ######
#       #  #   #  #  ##  ## #    # #      #      
#####    ##   #    # # ## # #    # #      ##### 
#        ##   ###### #    # #####  #      #      
#       #  #  #    # #    # #      #      #      
###### #    # #    # #    # #      ###### ######
        </pre>
    </body>
</html>