code box in java/css?

[KingOfHeart]

I'm not sure if it's possible or not but I'd figure I should ask.

 

I'm going to show some scripts in my tutorial. I need it to colorize certain words. Also I need it to display it by the amount of spaces and go to a new line when I press the enter key.

 

In HTML it removes extra spaces unless if I use   and it removes line breaks unless if I use <br>.

 

So what is possible?

[haku]

You can wrap it in a <pre> tag to preserve your spaces. And you can use the PHP function nl2br() to convert line breaks to <br> tags.

[KingOfHeart]

It's on a computer so I can't use php.

So you can colorize pre areas?

[KingOfHeart]

Well thought of what I can do, but I forget the basic commands.

 

I'm going to use plain text, combined with a span tag to be used as tabs, span tag to color certain words, and create some kind of border around this whole area with a div tag.

 

So in a css file how would I draw a border?

A tab in my file is "1.5em;" but what do I need to put for span?

 

<div class = "code">

<span class = "blue">#include <<!>general></span><br>

 

How do I set up the css file names?

#div.code { < is this right?

#span.code.blue < what about this?