<code> HTML inline code element

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The <code> HTML element displays its contents styled in a fashion intended to indicate that the text is a short fragment of computer code. By default, the content text is displayed using the user agent's default monospace font.

Try it

<p>
  The <code>push()</code> method adds one or more elements to the end of an
  array and returns the new length of the array.
</p>

code {
  background-color: #eeeeee;
  border-radius: 3px;
  font-family: "Courier New", monospace;
  padding: 0 3px;
}

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Examples

A paragraph of text that includes <code>:

html
<p>
  The function <code>selectAll()</code> highlights all the text in the input
  field so the user can, for example, copy or delete the text.
</p>

Result

Notes

To represent multiple lines of code, wrap the <code> element within a <pre> element. The <code> element by itself only represents a single phrase of code or line of code.

A CSS rule can be defined for the code selector to override the browser's default font face. Preferences set by the user might take precedence over the specified CSS.