Breaking space (Opposite of non-breaking space)

If you are using HTML and you would like more than one space to to appear, will not work. The unfortunate part about   is it does not wrap properly because it is a non-breaking space.

For those that reached here looking for a solution, try the CSS

white-space: pre-wrap;

This will allow you to have multiple spaces side by side in a single line. It works great for chat programs.


There may be other blank entities (which won't compact to a single) but there is another workaround for doing some padding but still having some wrapping occur as required:

Use the "ZeroWidthSpace" html entity and alternate with either "nbsp" for clarity or simply a space character.


There are multiple html entities for regular white space, which allow breaking, for instance  

Read this article for more information: https://www.codetd.com/en/article/6915972


  is a regular space (by its numeric ASCII value).