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Pre tag slows down internet explorer

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by markust

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Using the pre-tag (preformatted) slows down the internet explorer to quite unusable pace.

Netscape opens them up fast and scrolling and copy/paste is fast.

Couldn't find any hint on MS:s pages.

Has someone solved this problem otherwise thanusing netscape?

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by thamer

It is common that texts inside PRE look different in IE and NS.

With regards to pre-formatted text, while both browsers support the 

 tag, only Netscape supports a  attribute that specifies the number of columns and a  attribute that indicates that the text should be wrapped at that width.

Besides, ... This tag doesn't correspond to XML standards, so it's better not to use it in your pages at all. 

Nothing much to solve your problem, but, ... pre tags can be your own worst nightmare so use with caution.

by markust

Thats what I was afraid of.
It's just so easy to tag those two tags and put the page to our intranet.

But gotta find some other way to format the page.

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