html element
`<plaintext>` HTML plain text element
The <plaintext> HTML element renders everything following the start tag as raw text, ignoring any following HTML. There is no closing tag, since everything after it is considered raw text.
[!WARNING] Do not use this element.
<plaintext>is deprecated since HTML 2, and not all browsers implemented it. Browsers that did implement it didn’t do so consistently.<plaintext>is obsolete; browsers that accept it may instead treat it as a<pre>element that still interprets HTML within.- If
<plaintext>is the first element on the page (other than any non-displayed elements, like<head>), do not use HTML at all. Instead serve a text file with thetext/plainMIME-type.- Instead of
<plaintext>, use the<pre>element or, if semantically accurate (such as for inline text), the<code>element. Escape any<,>and&characters, to prevent browsers inadvertently parsing the element content as HTML.- A monospaced font can be applied to any HTML element via a CSS
font-familystyle with themonospacegeneric value.
Attributes
This element has no other attributes than the global attributes common to all elements.
DOM interface
This element implements the HTMLElement interface.
Specifications
SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.
Browser compatibility
Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.