document.open(“text/plain”) formatting ignored in webkit (safari, chrome)

Question

I am creating a page from JavaScript using document.open(\"text/plain\") and document.write(). The text to be rendered is multiple lines of tab separated text. In Chrome 13.0.7

Answer 1

You need to use the

 tag around your content in order to get it to render the way you want it to. The browser is still going to treat the document you're writing the code into as an HTML document. The 
 tag will tell the browser to render the content a pre-formatted text, which will honor all line breaks and white-space characters.