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 ==== Pre ====
-<code><<nowiki />pre></code> defines preformatted text that is displayed in a monospace font and enclosed in a dashed box. HTML-like and wiki markup tags are escaped and spaces and line breaks are preserved, but HTML elements are parsed.
+<code><<nowiki />pre></code> tags define preformatted text that is displayed in a monospace font and enclosed in a dashed box. It doubles as both a parser tag and an HTML tag, since the parser will escape all HTML-like and wiki markup tags and preserve spaces and line breaks, but HTML elements are parsed.
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 </pre>
-To use Wiki markup within a <code><<nowiki />pre></code> tag, [[wikipedia:Help:Wikitext#Pre|place an {{plaincode|<<nowiki />includeonly>}} tag]] immediately after the word <code>pre</code>, as follows:
+It is also possible to use Wiki markup within a <code><<nowiki />pre></code> tag, and have it actually be interpreted as markup instead of being escaped. This can be done using a [[wikipedia:Help:Wikitext#Pre|self-closing {{plaincode|<<nowiki />includeonly>}} tag]], as follows:
 <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">