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Code Tags in Blogs and Lack of Support Thereof

Most WordPress themes have little (if any) respect for code and pre tags. I stumbled upon a blog some time ago whose support of said tags I quite liked. I dug up the CSS code and mailed it to myself.

Upon recent cleaning of my inbox I stumbled upon it again, and actually applied it to current theme. The designer of the current theme is someone named Bob who hates white space!

Anyway, for posterity, and so I can look for it later, here’s the code. (It may well be able to be stream lined - I’m certainly neophyte enough in CSS still to not know any better.)

pre, code {
	background:#FFFFFF url(/wp-content/themes/preback.jpg) no-repeat scroll left top;
	border: 1px solid #99CC66;
	color: #000000;
	display: block;
	font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, Fixed, monospace;
	font-size: 110%;
	font-size-adjust: none;
	font-stretch: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	font-variant: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	line-height: 17px;
	margin: 1em 0pt;
	overflow: auto;
	padding: 0pt 20px 0pt 30px;
	text-align: left;
}