I am not an HTML coder, by any means. I just look up stuff on an as needed basis.
But for easy formatting, just use [pre] and [/pre],
to bracket whatever text you want to keep in your original format.
EXCEPT, replace the square brackets with "less
than" (<) and "greater than" (>) symbols.
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pre is an abbreviation for preformatted.