Vorlage:Pre

Sample text
on several lines

Usage

{{Pre|1= |background= |color= |width= |space= }} 

All parameters are optional:

• |1= the text to present (may include markup and templates to expand; note that automatic syntaxhighliting is not supported; the default text is empty).
• |background= |color= – set alternate colors (in CSS format); for passing CSS colors using a compact numeric format starting with a sharp sign # followed by hexadecimal digits (3 or 6 digits for RGB colors, 4 or 8 digits for RGBA colors), you may need to escape it by a leading empty tag, so that it won't be interpreted by MediaWiki as a numbered list item when it preprocesses parameters given to the template, or use a template generating the color syntax.
• |width= – CSS width for the generated <pre></pre> parent element (useful in table cells).
• |space= – one of the values accepted for the CSS white-space: attribute (pre-wrap by default to preserve newlines in the text given in 1st parameter but still allow wrapping overlong lines, without overflowing the width or using an horizontal scrollbar)