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HTML 2, 3.2, 4, 4.01, 5

Renders text in a fixed-width font without processing HTML tags.

HTML Syntax

<plaintext
   class = classname
   id = value
   style = css properties
   title = text
   event = script
>

The PLAINTEXT element displays text in a plain text style, with no additional styles such as bold, italics or underlined. Using PLAINTEXT suppresses interpretation of all HTML tags from that point thru the remainder of the document.

This element has been deprecated in favor of the PRE element.

NOTE: This element has been deprecated and is no longer recommended.

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