You can apply the white-space property to any block-level element. In Netscape and Opera, it's possible to control spacing and line breaks inside paragraphs, header tags, and other elements using the white-space property.

Unfortunately, Explorer 5.x browsers (for Windows) ignore this extremely useful technique. Explorer 6 only supports it if you use a strict DOCTYPE definition. If you use a frameset or transitional DOCTYPE, the browsers ignore the property entirely.

Include the white-space property in your style definition like this:

white-space: pre;

Use it with other style definitions to control whitespace and retain the same fonts and colors as the rest of the document. Here's a sample definition:

.preElement
{
white-space:pre;
font-weight:bold;
color:navy;
font-family:arial;
}

When you apply this class to a page element, you get bold, navy text, in Arial. It retains line breaks and word spacing.