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listing element | listing object

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Renders text in a fixed-width font.

Closing Tag	required
CSS Display	block

This tag is no longer recommended. Use the PRE or SAMP tag instead.

Build date: 3/8/2012

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Remark - arcane uses for this tag

This tag <LISTING> displays most-text-like (of HTML), when used as a dummy-wrapper:

eg.

<LISTING>
<DIV>
<p style=margin:200>text
</DIV>
</LISTING>

(In particular it compresses internal vertical margins: top and bottom.)

ADDITIONAL USES: See, How to speed-up pasting into a text-area: <LISTING> is fastest:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531186(VS.85).aspx

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