This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLPreElement interface exposes specific properties and methods (beyond those of the HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating a block of preformatted text (<pre>).
Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.
HTMLPreElement.width Deprecated
A long value reflecting the obsolete width attribute, containing a fixed-size length for the <pre> element.
No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # htmlpreelement> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
HTMLPreElement |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
width |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
<pre>
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLPreElement