Is it possible to make any CSS element behave like

Question

I am loading some content inside an iframe. I want this content to behave as-if it was inside a

 tag - namely for it to respect line breaks.  I am using         


        

Answer 1

If you're only interested in preserving line breaks but not whitespace then I suggest using:

body {
    white-space: pre-line;
}

This will collapse multiple consecutive white space characters into one but preserve line breaks. The downside is that it's only supported in IE versions 8 and up.