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liunx · Jan 9, 2008

Hello, 
In the process of building web-based GUI frontends to a backend CICS System, I have to print data streams sent by CICS on a web page using HTML. I am currently using the <PRE> tag in HTML to do this. But there is a lot of unneccesary space included between two rows of such data. 
 
Does anywone know if there is a way to control the spacing in a <PRE> tag....or even if there are better alternatives to using this tag....??? 
 
Please advice! 
 
Thanks, 
V.<pre style="line-height: 50%"> 
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away 
Now it looks as though they're here to stay 
Oh I believe in Yesterday. 
Suddenly 
I'm not half the man I used to be. 
There's a shadow hanging over me. 
Oh Yesterday came suddenly. 
</pre>You said "using HTML" so, if that's required, forget this; but you can open a new browser document with a different mime type - like 'plain text'. This will interpret whitespace 'correctly' - but won't give you CSS control as above...just a thought. 
 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>untitled</title> 
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> 
 
var docWin = null; 
 
function writeToDocWin() { 
docWin.document.open('text/plain'); 
docWin.document.write( 
'Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away\n', 
'Now it looks as though they\'re here to stay\n', 
'Oh I believe in Yesterday.\n', 
'Suddenly\n', 
'I\'m not half the man I used to be.\n', 
'There\'s a shadow hanging over me.\n', 
'Oh Yesterday came suddenly.' 
); 
docWin.document.bgColor = '#ddeeff'; 
docWin.document.close(); 
} 
 
function openDocWin() { 
docWin=window.open('','docWin','status=0,width=380,height=140,left=200,top=200'); 
setTimeout('writeToDocWin()',100); 
} 
 
</script> 
</head> 
<body> 
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"#" onclick="openDocWin();return false;">OPEN DOC WIN</a> 
</body> 
</html>

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