How to preserve whitespace indentation of text enclosed in HTML <pre> tags excluding the current indentation level of the <pre> tag in the document?
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I'm trying to display my code on a website but I'm having problems preserving the whitespace indentation correctly.
For instance given the following snippet:
<html>
<body>
Here is my code:
<pre>
def some_funtion
return 'Hello, World!'
end
</pre>
<body>
</html>
This is displayed in the browser as:
Here is my code:
def some_funtion
return 'Hello, World!'
end
When I would like it displayed as:
Here is my code:
def some_funtion
return 'Hello, World!'
end
The difference is that that current indentation level of the HTML pre tag is being added to the indentation of the code. I'm using nanoc as a static website generator and I'm using google prettify to also add syntax highlighting.
Can anyone offer any suggestions?
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