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Wiki - Multiple Spaces Show up as a Single Space in Wikitext Fields

Description

Use-case:

1. A Codebeamer user adds a text with multiple white spaces in a wikitext field:
   
2. The changes are saved and published.

Result:

The multiple white spaces are reduced to just one:

Observed on

• Codebeamer 21.09-LTS (EMMA)

Solution

• This behavior is intentional and does not depend on Codebeamer. Browsers strip out white spaces in order to comply with the HTML specifications: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.1
  
  
• As workarounds:

a) You can use monospace or preformatted block, for example:

Minimum input voltage: 1 V , or

Minimum input voltage:         1 V
Maximum input voltage:        10 V

b) You can add empty spaces using non-breaking space chars ():

1. When editing the field, switch to Markup mode.
2. Replace the white spaces with non-breaking space chars ():
   
3. Result:
   

Additional Information

• For more information on White space, see w3c.org.
• See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/433493/why-does-html-require-that-multiple-spaces-show-up-as-a-single-space-in-the-brow
• Related: Wiki - Is It Possible to Indent Lines in Wikitext Fields?

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