7.4. Monospaced Text
Another text formatting tag that has survived deprecation in XHTML is the teletype (<tt>), or monospaced, tag. This tag tells the user agent that text should be rendered in a monospaced font. You can use this tag to format reserved words in documentation, code listings, and so on. The following code shows an example of the teletype tag in use:
<p>Consider using the <tt>date()</tt> function for this purpose.</p>
This tag is named for the teletype terminals used with the first computers, which were capable of printing only in a monospaced font.
Again, the use of styles is preferred over individual in-line tags. If you need text rendered in a monospaced font, consider using styles instead of the <tt> tag.
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