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white-space

Controls how the browser handles white space: spaces, tabs, and carriage return/linefeed combos.

Support:

W3C StandardInternet ExplorerNetscape Navigator
CSS1 and later Not supported 4.0 and later
Notes:
  • This style replaces the HTML <PRE> tag.
Possible Values:
normal
White space is handled using the normal HTML guidelines.

Support:

W3C StandardInternet ExplorerNetscape Navigator
CSS1 and later Not supported 4.0 and later

nowrap
Same as normal, but line breaks are suppressed.

Support:

W3C StandardInternet ExplorerNetscape Navigator
CSS1 and later Not supported Not supported

Notes:
  • If you use this property, then you need to add HTML <BR> tags to insert line breaks in your text.

pre
White space is preserved.

Support:

W3C StandardInternet ExplorerNetscape Navigator
CSS1 and later Not supported 4.0 and later

Notes:
  • This property acts just like the HTML <PRE> tag.

Example:
<P STYLE="white-space: pre">
          Here’s
        some ditty,
      specially done,
    to lay it out all
  formatted and pretty.
Unfortunately, that is all
  this junk really means,
     because I admit I
      couldn’t scrawl
        poetry for 
          beans.
How It Looks:

Here’s some ditty, specially done, to lay it out all formatted and pretty. Unfortunately, that is all this junk really means, because I admit I couldn’t scrawl poetry for beans.


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