HTML Source: Display multiple Spaces after each other

In fact, in the interpretation of a HTML source code, the browser filters out the entire White Space such as spaces, tabs or line breaks, as long as the White Space does not make a special sense like dividing single words from each other, for example.

Finally, the purpose of HTML is to describe how a website looks like and for example, where a paragraph is placed and not vice versa.

If, for example, each paragraph/line break typed in your source code will also be displayed on the website, it would be hardly possible to format the source possibly halfway reasonable, because you would permanently have to pay attention to the presentation in the browser. The same way it is with the whitespace often used to indent some lines.

To tell the browser that multiple spaces should be shown after each other, you have to tell that in the language of HTML:

    

Instead of a space, you can also write " " in the source code. " " is a so-called "named character" and represents a nonbreaking space. Correspondingly, several " " connected in series are several consecutive spaces.

In addition to this method, there is another possibility, how to format whole areas that they are displayed in the browser with the same way they are written in the source code. How to do this, I have described in detail in the linked article.
2014-01-07 at 11:50