code must be within pre (inline elements can't contain block-level elements)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Listing 4-18. Code</title> </head> <body> <pre><code> function helloWorld() { var button = document.getElementById("button"); if (button) { button.onclick = function(){ alert("Hello world!"); } } } </code></pre> </body> </html>