<screen>
The <screen> element contains a textual representation of a
terminal console or other text-based computer interface.
Rendering expectations
Processors SHOULD preserve the
line breaks and spaces that are present in the content of a
<screen> element.
The contents of the <screen>
element is typically enclosed within a box to suggest a computer
display screen. It also is typically rendered in a monospaced
font.
Specialization hierarchy
The <screen> element is specialized from
<pre>. It is defined in the user-interface domain module.
Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element: display
attributes, universal
attributes, and @xml:space.
Example
In the following code sample, the <screen> element is used to illustrate the steps needed to clone a git repository and check
status:
<screen>
workspace $ git clone git@example.com:oasis-tcs/dita-techcomm.git
Cloning into 'dita-techcomm'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1023, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (31/31), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done.
remote: Total 1023 (delta 6), reused 21 (delta 4), pack-reused 992
Receiving objects: 100% (1023/1023), 9.87 MiB | 729.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (367/367), done.
workspace $ cd dita-techcomm
dita-techcomm $ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
dita-techcomm $
</screen>