CODE tags does not display odd numbers of spaces greater than one

ecco the dolphin · June 2008

Hi!

I was just trying to visually format something using the

tags, and I've noticed that it doesn't seem to display odd numbers of spaces (greater than one).

For example:

[code]
ABC <- This has no space before the ABC
 BCD <- This has one space before the BCD
  CDE <- This has two spaces before the CDE
   DEF <- This *should* have three spaces before the DEF, but appears to have only two
    EFG <- This has four spaces before the EFG
     FGH <- This *should* have five spaces before the FGH, but appears to have only four
      GHI <- This has six spaces before the GHI
       HIJ <- This *should* have seven spaces, before appears to have only six

This also occurs if the spaces are in the middle of text:

ABCD <- No space
A CDE <- One space
A  DEF <- Two spaces
A   EFG <- Should be three, but appears to be two
A    FGH <- Four spaces
A     GHI <- Should be five, but appears to be four
A      HIJ <- Six spaces
A       IJK <- Should be seven, but appears to be six

I'm pretty sure that I've typed in the stated number of spaces.

It's no big deal, I'll just space things using periods for now, but was wondering if this was a known issue/a workaround is available.

Echo · June 2008

Looks like the forum does silly stuff with the HTML.

When HTML renders whitespace it trims down multiple spaces and renders them as one single space -- unless you use a non-breaking space, which says "use a space here goddamnit". Seems to be some SNAFU in the code that skips one nbsp at the end of odd numbers of whitespace.

I thought that the code HTML tag was meant to preserve whitespace as-is, but I can't find anything about that anywhere in HTML specs.

Barrakketh · June 2008

Echo wrote: »

I thought that the code HTML tag was meant to preserve whitespace as-is, but I can't find anything about that anywhere in HTML specs.

That is what the pre HTML tag is for.

EDIT: Edited to help alleviate confusion for people like Willeth ;-)

Willeth · June 2008

This post is a failed test - thought that pre tags were bbcode, not HTML :P

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