HTML Tags for Encapsulating Code in Blog Posts

<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed rgb(153 , 153 , 153); color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 620px; word-wrap: break-word;">

---> TEXT <---- 

</span></pre>

The HTML [currently] used for encapsulating and displaying code on this blog.


UPDATE: Now obsolete - 10th March 2015

Replaced with global CSS

pre.bash 
{
   width: 628px; 
   background-color: #ffffff;
   border: solid #292929;
   border-width: 1px 1px 1px 8px;
   border-radius: 3px;
   padding: 4px 4px 4px 4px;
   font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;
   color: #252525;
   font-size: 12px; 
   line-height: 14px;
   letter-spacing: .6px;
   overflow: auto;
   white-space: pre-wrap;
   word-wrap: break-word;
}