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Posted by Jason Nugent on September 09, 1998 at 15:21:13:
In Reply to: White Space in HTML posted by Jian Zhang on September 09, 1998 at 14:05:09:
: Hi,
: When I send each line read from a plain
: text file in the <html>..</html> region,
: all the leading white-spaces are chopped
: off. Does anyone kown how to preserve them
: in the html? And how about set one (1)
: tab space to 2 spaces?
: Thanks in advance.
: Jian Zhang
: San Jose
It is in the specification to collapse all whitespace. Tabs, carriage returns and multiple spaces all get compressed to a single space. To place white space in your document, you either need to use one of the special tags that allows white space ( the CODE tag, for instance), or, if you want to preserve your fonts, use the character which inserts a non-breaking space that won't collapse.
Jason
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