HTML/CSS - Best practice for preserving white space on certain elements?

Question

What is the best way to preserve white space in HTML? We have a lot of pages that bring down data from our database, and the data may have multiple spaces in it.

Answer 1

I would use the same technique, but inside a data class wrapper where it is needed:

.data a, .data span, .data tr, .data td { white-space: pre; }

HTML:

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