Deprecated
This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
Summary
The HTML Listing Element (<listing>
) renders text between the start and end tags without interpreting the HTML in between and using a monospaced font. The HTML 2 standard recommended that lines shouldn't be broken when not greater than 132 characters.
- It is deprecated since HTML 3.2 and was neither implemented by all browsers, nor in a consistent way. Even more it is obsoleted in HTML5 and may be rendered by conforming user-agents as the
<pre>
element, which will interpret the internal HTML! - Instead use the
<pre>
element or if semantically adequate the<code>
element, eventually escaping the HTML '<
' and '>
' so that they don't get interpreted. - A monospaced font can also be obtained on a simple
<div>
element, by applying an adequate CSS style usingmonospace
as the generic-font value in afont-family
property.
Attributes
This element has no other attributes than the global attributes, common to all elements.
DOM interface
This element implements the HTMLElement
interface.
Implementation note: up to Gecko 1.9.2 inclusive, Firefox implements the HTMLSpanElement
interface for this element.
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
- The
<pre>
and<code>
elements to be used instead. - The
<plaintext>
and<xmp>
elements, similar to<listing>
but also obsolete.