Is it possible to "just make spaces visible"?

[Manuel Reimer]

Hello,

my problem is that spaces are always reduced to the size of one in html.
I need some trick to make all spaces in a line visible.

Something like this is possible with "<pre>" in HTML, but with this I
get my newlines twice as "<pre>" interprets newlines *and* "<br>" (and
no, in my case it's not easy to get rid of the "<br>").

Is something like this possible?

Thank you very much in advance

CU

Manuel

[Chris Beall]

Manuel Reimer wrote:

Hello,

my problem is that spaces are always reduced to the size of one in html.
I need some trick to make all spaces in a line visible.

Something like this is possible with "<pre>" in HTML, but with this I
get my newlines twice as "<pre>" interprets newlines *and* "<br>" (and
no, in my case it's not easy to get rid of the "<br>").

Is something like this possible?

Thank you very much in advance

CU

Manuel

Manuel,

In HTML, multiple consecutive spaces are compressed into one by default.
There are two ways to avoid this:
- Avoid multiple consecutive spaces by using the &nbsp; character
entity reference, e.g. I want to leave lots &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of
space in here.
- Alter the default behavior with CSS, by specifying white-space. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html...ef-white-space. Some options
may not work on all browsers; you'll have to do some testing.

Chris Beall

[David Dorward]

Manuel Reimer wrote:

my problem is that spaces are always reduced to the size of one in html.
I need some trick to make all spaces in a line visible.

Why? Are you trying to line up columns of data? That is the job of a table.
Do you want to indent text? That is the job of text-indent, margin and
padding.

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[Harlan Messinger]

Manuel Reimer wrote:

Hello,

my problem is that spaces are always reduced to the size of one in html.
I need some trick to make all spaces in a line visible.

Something like this is possible with "<pre>" in HTML, but with this I
get my newlines twice as "<pre>" interprets newlines *and* "<br>" (and
no, in my case it's not easy to get rid of the "<br>").

Then get rid of the newlines. Or change the spaces to non-breaking spaces.

[Stan Brown]

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:45:03 +0100 from Manuel Reimer
<Ma***************@nurfuerspam.de>:

Hello,

my problem is that spaces are always reduced to the size of one in html.
I need some trick to make all spaces in a line visible.

Something like this is possible with "<pre>" in HTML, but with this I
get my newlines twice as "<pre>" interprets newlines *and* "<br>" (and
no, in my case it's not easy to get rid of the "<br>").

<pre>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3</pre>

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