Title: Workable fixed width tag?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Workable fixed width tag?

 *  [mondalaci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mondalaci/)
 * (@mondalaci)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/workable-fixed-width-tag/)
 * I cannot post with fixed width text in Workpress. I thought the CODE tag exactly
   does that but when I tried it, I realized it doesn’t work. I tried various other
   HTML tags too like PRE or TT, but Workpress seems to escape them all along with
   the CODE tag.
    So what should I do? I’m using Workpress 1.2.1. Thanks!

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 *  [remi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remi/)
 * (@remi)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/workable-fixed-width-tag/#post-121141)
 * `<pre>` tag works well with fixed width text.
 * > but Workpress seems to escape them all along with the CODE tag.
 * What do you mean? It changes `<pre>` to  ??
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/workable-fixed-width-tag/#post-121161)
 * Set up a class for a selector and use a mono-spaced font like Courier, for example.
 *  Thread Starter [mondalaci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mondalaci/)
 * (@mondalaci)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/workable-fixed-width-tag/#post-121163)
 * I just realize that I misread the generated XHTML code. The WordPress converter
   indeed not escapes the <pre> tag, but the – (minus) characters get converted 
   to the — or — entity.
    I don’t really understand why this conversion required.
   Because of this, minus characters in the preformatted text have smaller width
   than the rest so that’s why I haven’t percieved the text as fixed width. Any 
   developer remark about the minus sign conversion policy?
 *  Thread Starter [mondalaci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mondalaci/)
 * (@mondalaci)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/workable-fixed-width-tag/#post-121165)
 * In my above post on the — or — entities I meant the #8212 or mdash entities. 
   I didn’t know WordPress converts them.

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