whitespace in R Shiny

Question

I have a problem with text in Shiny Dashboard. I would like to save original text formatting, but shiny removes the whitespaces I want to keep.

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Answer 1

I found this oddly difficult to achieve. Just adding the style element to pre-wrap introduced an extra new line:

p(strong("Name and Surname:"),("     John Smith"),style="white-space: pre-wrap")

No other style elements (margin:0, etc) could fix this...so,to get around it, I just converted your strong() to HTML, and it works great:

p(HTML("Name and Surname:         John Smith"),style="white-space: pre-wrap")