<code>: The Inline Code element
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The<code>HTML element displays its contents styled in a fashion intended to indicate that the text is a short fragment of computer code. By default, the content text is displayed using theuser agent's default monospace font.
Try it
<p> The <code>push()</code> method adds one or more elements to the end of an array and returns the new length of the array.</p>code { background-color: #eeeeee; border-radius: 3px; font-family: "Courier New", monospace; padding: 0 3px;}Attributes
This element only includes theglobal attributes.
Examples
A paragraph of text that includes<code>:
<p> The function <code>selectAll()</code> highlights all the text in the input field so the user can, for example, copy or delete the text.</p>Result
Notes
To represent multiple lines of code, wrap the<code> element within a<pre> element. The<code> element by itself only represents a single phrase of code or line of code.
A CSS rule can be defined for thecode selector to override the browser's default font face. Preferences set by the user might take precedence over the specified CSS.
Technical summary
| Content categories | Flow content,phrasing content, palpable content. |
|---|---|
| Permitted content | Phrasing content. |
| Tag omission | None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. |
| Permitted parents | Any element that acceptsphrasing content. |
| Implicit ARIA role | code |
| Permitted ARIA roles | Any |
| DOM interface | HTMLElement Up to Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 4) inclusive, Firefox implements theHTMLSpanElement interface for this element. |
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # the-code-element |