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This site uses the xmp tag (deprecated in HTML 3.2, removed in HTML5) which I found interesting and had never seen!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/xm...

It's similar to the pre tag but doesn't require the escaping. I guess you just have to make sure you don't have a closing xmp tag :)

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<xmp> is great when you absolutely, positively, do not want any entities rendered under any circumstances. It's unfortunate that it's being deprecated, since it has its uses.

> <xmp> is great when you absolutely, positively, do not want any entities rendered under any circumstances. It's unfortunate that it's being deprecated, since it has its uses.

  <![CDATA[ here &entities; or <angle|<brackets>> will not interpreted ]]>

There is no need for special-casing xmp, when SGML and XML already define CDATA escapes.

Removed?

"User agents must treat xmp elements in a manner equivalent to pre elements in terms of semantics and for purposes of rendering. (The parser has special behaviour for this element though.)" — https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/obsolete.html#require...

I was just going off what the MDN page said about it being removed in the HTML5 standard. It looks like WHATWG just has a "living standard" and W3C still uses the versioning, so it's probably removed from W3C standards. I'm not too familiar with the reality of these standards.

I use <xmp> for debugging purposes all the time.

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