[Forum] Text spacing issue in editor

[sticky]

I noticed something today when posting. Tried to space out two words with extra spaces by pressing the spacebar and they appeared spaced out in the editor until I clicked reply at which point they were next to each with just 1 space. Why is this? Why can't I make one word spaced out from another?

[sticky]

^ Just attempted to do so here and the same thing

[sticky]

Hello?

[sticky]

So... help?

[Lynne]

It's html. Html doesn't allow extra spaces unless you code them as a non-breaking space or you put <pre> tags around the text.

[sticky]

It's html. Html doesn't allow extra spaces unless you code them as a non-breaking space or you put <pre> tags around the text.

How do I code them as a non-breaking space?

<pre> safsfd sdd asdfads </pre>

^ Doesn't work.

[Lynne]

You can't use html in a post here so you cannot add extra spaces. Your text gets converted to html for the browser to output.

What exactly are you trying to do? Could you use [ code ] tags for whatever you are doing?