Do browsers remove whitespace in between text of any html tag

Question

Here is a fiddle demonstrating the problem

http://jsfiddle.net/WM8XW/

I have inserted many whitespace in the content of the label tag but the html rendered s

Answer 1

Browsers usually treat multiple consecutive spaces and/or carriage returns as a single space. In the case of non-breaking spaces (  or  ) browsers will typically honor multiple consecutive occurrences as-is with no collapsing to a single space.

Solution1:

You can hard code the (  or  ) as much as you want.

Reference

Any text between the opening <pre> tag and the closing </pre> tag will preserve the formatting of the source document.

Solution2: You can make use of <pre> tag.

Reference

If you want to execute with css also you can perform the same the above answers are only from html point of view

Answer 2

The normal behavior for the display of whitespaces is to compress them into a single one, which is then displayed.

There are two exceptions from that:

1. The <pre> tag, which keeps the whitespaces as entered.
2. Setting the CSS property white-space: pre; (respectively pre-wrap or pre-line)

Answer 3

Yes multiple white spaces are converted to one white space by browser. Your only option is to have hard space ie. &nbsp;