Jukka K. Korpela said:
The question is obscure, but it didn't quite deserve such a wrong answer.
I was imagining a specific thing he wanted in the typing of some
text in a paragraph, namely how to make space bar spaces or tab
bar spaces show up. The idea being that "don" would respond and
say that is what he wanted and either explain why[*] and further
clarify his question. Or leave it a mystery.
The question that should have been asked is, most probably, "how do I
present tabular data in HTML?", and the correct answer is "using a
<table>
element".
Sense that does not make.
OK, seems one or the other or both of my sentences are not clear.
If you type a paragraph, the prewrap element retains the spaces
but allows the text to wrap. If "don" wanted these spaces to
appear, they will for the most part. But for some browser widths,
the spaces might not be manifest if they occur just before the
wrap.
In the text I provided,
"<p style="white-space: pre-wrap">You are clutching at every
possible straw you can to avoid the perfectly reasonable idea
that science is just common reasoning gone more self conscious
and exact and organised. You imagine that in this process there
is some well defined thing called The Scientific Method. But this
is a simplistic chimera of yours and a product of naive
thinking at every turn.</p>"
in the first paragraph, there is a word "to" followed by the word
"avoid" which was an example of where there might be some unusual
space. I forget if I gave a URL or simply offered the above in
the body of my post. Perhaps the space is lost in usenet space?
(not sure if the pun is intended? <g>)