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HTML <code> Code Tag

The Code tag in the HTML document is used to define an enclosed text as a computer code. By default, the content text is displayed using the monospaced font of the smaller size in the browsers.

Info: The code tag along represents a single code line. You can use the code tag with pre tag to create multiple lines of code.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Syntax:

The code tag contains both starting code tag and closing code tag. The content is written between these two tags.


<code>Text content </code> 

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HTML code Tag:

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| HTML code tag | Used to represent the computer code |
| Content categories | Flow content, phrasing content, palpable content. |
| Permitted content | Phrasing content. |
| Tag omission | None, both opening and closing tags are mandatory. |
| Permitted parents | Any HTML element that accepts phrasing content. |
| Implicit ARIA role | No corresponding role |
| Permitted ARIA roles | Any |
| DOM interface | HTML Element. The HTML Span Element interface for this element. |

Sample of the HTML code Tag:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Document Title</title>
  </head>
  <body>
<h3>HTML Code tag:</h3>
    <p>This is the ordinary text.</p>
    <code>This text is enclosed within the HTML code tag.</code>    
  </body>
</html>

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Result:

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Download Sample File:

HTML-Code-TagDownload

Sample of the HTML code tag with pre Tag:

The pre-tag is used to display the code snippets because it always keeps the text formatting as it.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <head>
    <title>Document Title</title>
  </head> 
<body>
<h3>Sample of HTML <code> tag with<pre> tag</h3>
<p>Here is the sample code for print Welcome Back </p>
    <pre>
      <code>
#include<stdio.h>
 int main()
  {
    printf("Welcome Back!!");
  }
      </code>
    </pre>
</body> 
</html>

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Use CSS Property with HTML code Tag:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      .code-style {
        font-size: 20px;
        line-height: 30px;
        background-color: #C40655;
        color: #ffffff;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>This is the ordinary text.</p>
    <code class="code-style">Line of the computer code.</code>
    <p>Continuation of the ordinary text.</p>
  </body>
</html>

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Attributes:

The code tag supports the global attributes and the event attributes.

Styling Methods for code Tag:

You can use the following properties to style an HTML code tag.

Properties to style the visual weight/emphasis/size of the text in code tag:

  • CSS font-style – This CSS property helps to set the font style of the text such as normal, italic, oblique, initial, inherit.
  • CSS font-family – This CSS property specifies a prioritized list of one or more font family names or generic family names for the selected element.
  • CSS font-size – This CSS property will help to set the size of the font.
  • CSS font-weight – This CSS property used to define whether the font should be bold or thick.
  • CSS text-transform – This CSS property will control the text case and capitalization.
  • CSS test-decoration – This CSS property specifies the decoration added to text such as text-decoration-line , text-decoration-color , text-decoration- style.

Styles to coloring the text in code Tag:

  • CSS color – This CSS property will specify the color of the text content and decorations.
  • CSS background-color – This CSS property helps to set the background color of an element.

Text layout styles for code Tag:

  • CSS text-indent – This CSS property is used to specify the indentation of the first line in a text block.
  • *CSS text-overflow * – This CSS property helps to describe how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signaled to the user.
  • CSS white-space – This CSS property describes how white-space inside an element is handled.
  • CSS word-break – This CSS property decides where the lines should be broken.

Other Properties for code Tag:

  • CSS text-shadow – This CSS property helps to add the shadow to text.
  • CSS text-align-last – This CSS property will set the alignment of the last line of the text.
  • CSS line-height – This CSS property defines the height of a line.
  • CSS letter-spacing – This CSS property helps to decide the spaces between letters/characters in a text.
  • CSS word-spacing – This CSS property specifies the spacing between every word.

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