How to insert indents into html code tag?

Question

I'm trying to put some python code in html document. I am using code tag. Example

<code>
    for iris, species in zip(irises, classification):
        if species == 0:
            print(f'Flower {iris} is Iris-setosa')
</code>

The problem is, page doesn't see new lines and indents. I can handle new lines with br tag but I didn't find anything to make indent. I tried pre tag, but I have to remove all indents in html document, and with several indents in it, it starts to look very ugly. Propably I could use   but using 4,8 or 12 in one line doesn't seem to be good idea. Is there anything else I can do to format my code?

Answer 1

The parser will ignore white space characters in the source code. you can may <pre> or <br/> or fake it with CSS. but the solution you proposed is also valid and works, but as you stated it is ugly. if you are going for that you can use 	 char and it will create a tab indent; it makes more sense to use it instead of 4 x   but you still need to put it inside <pre> tag to avoid being ignored by the parser.