Browser white space rendering

Question

Recently I was editing someone else\'s code and I noticed that spaces were used something like the following:

Some text     &         


        
      

Answer 1

As far as I know the rule is simple: more than 1 white-space each after another is always rendered as 1 white-space. If you want to render more, you need to use   entity.

So if you have code ([whitespace] is here standard whitespace)

[whitespace][whitespace]

browser renders only one whitespace

but when you have

[whitespace] [whitespace]

browser will render 3 white-spaces because normal white-spaces are separated by extra  

This rule doesn't apply to entity version so if you have

2 white-spaces will be generated