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Re: multiple white-space

From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:50:24 +0100 (BST)
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
cc: Jochem Heicke <jhl@surfeu.de>, www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109132047310.15731-100000@phaestos.ee.surrey.ac.uk> 
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> * Jochem Heicke wrote:
> >Is there any definite proposal how multiple white-spaces
> >should be rendered?
> 
> There is a normative definition on how user agents must
> treat white space in HTML documents. Multiple white space
> characters are converted to a single space character outside
> the context of a pre element.

For this, &nbsp; is not a whitespace character, but tab is...

L.

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