Format spacing in html

HTML Spaces

Spacing can be added to any element and gives extra room to these elements. Spaces can be defined with space characters, such as ‘ ‘ (space),   and others. Alternatively, spacing can be added with CSS padding and margin properties.

Example

This example demonstrates text with extra spacing between the words.
The spaces are generated with the ‘ ‘ (space) and the   (non-breaking space) characters.

 
Text   with spaces        between the   words.
 

Adding Spaces

For text, to add extra spacing use a non-breaking space symbol (   ). In other situations, the CSS padding property can be used to add space inside an element. For more space, the CSS margin property can add space outside an element.

What is whitespace?

• spaces,
• tabs, and
• line-breaks (carriage returns or line feeds or both)

Why is this important?

In a word processor, for example, these characters are not visible, but they do have an effect on the spacing and formatting of the text. However, in HTML things are different: the browser collapses multiple whitespace characters into a single space .

This HTML has multiple spaces between the words, and CRLF (carriage return, linefeed) characters at the end of each line. The browser will collapse all whitespace characters.

 
Here is text with spaces between the words .
 

The browser turns the HTML into this output:

Here is text with spaces between the words .

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How to Insert Spaces in HTML

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Adding extra space between words and paragraphs in HTML is very different than in apps like Microsoft Word. But don’t tear out your hair just yet—we’ll show you the easiest ways to control spacing between words and lines of text, as well as how to add extra space to the beginning of each paragraph so they are properly indented on the page. This wikiHow article teaches you different ways you can add spaces to your HTML code.

Adding Extra Spaces Between Words

Open your HTML code in a text editor. You can use any text editor, such as Notepad for Windows, or TextEdit for macOS, to edit your code. If you press the spacebar multiple times to add extra space between words or characters, you won’t see those extra spaces on your webpage—HTML automatically converts multiple spaces into a single space. You can fix this by using non-breaking space characters instead of pressing the spacebar.

For example, let’s say you want three spaces between the words «What will you learn» and «today?» Instead of pressing the spacebar three times, just type     between the two segments. Here’s an example:

 html> head> title>wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.title> head> body> p>What will you learn   today?p> body> html> 

Keeping Spaces in Pasted Text

Open your HTML code. Another way to add more spaces to your code is to use the HTML tag. This tag essentially displays the text exactly as you type or paste it, spaces and all. Start by opening your code in a text editor like Notepad for Windows or TextEdit for macOS.

Type tags in the body of your document. Any text you want to keep preformatted with a particular amount of spaces and/or line breaks will go between these tags:

 html> head> title>wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.title> head> body> pre> pre> body> html> 

Type or paste text exactly as intended between the «» and »» tags. In this example, we’re creating three spaces between words, as well as a line break. When pre-formatting text, any spaces between words, as well as line breaks you create by pressing «Enter» or «Return,» will be displayed on the webpage. [2] X Research source

 html> head> title>wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.title> head> body> pre>What will you learn today?pre> body> html> 

Inserting Empty Lines (Line Breaks)

Open your HTML code in a text editor. Do you want to add extra space between paragraphs or other elements on the page? Pressing Enter or Return a bunch of times in your code won’t do the trick, but adding a line break tag
will! Start by opening the HTML code of the page you want to edit.

 html> head> title>wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.title> head> body> pre>What will you learn today?pre> br>br> p>You will learn a lot!p> body> html> 

Indenting Paragraphs

Open an HTML document. Let’s say you want to indent the beginning a paragraph with some space—let’s say 10 pixels. The best way to do this would be to use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). We’ll cover two ways to do this—one lets you indent each paragraph manually, and another indents all paragraphs at once. Start by opening up your HTML document in a text editor.

Indent a single paragraph. If we want to indent the paragraph in our example, we can do so by adding the text-indent property to its

tag. In this example, we’ll be indenting our paragraph by 10px:

 html> head> title>wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.title> head> body> p style="text-indent:10px">Welcome to wikiHow, the most trusted how-to site on the internet. wikiHow is where trusted research and expert knowledge come together.p> p> Since 2005, wikiHow has helped billions of people learn how to solve problems large and small. We work with credentialed experts, a team of trained researchers, and a devoted community to create the most reliable, comprehensive and delightful how-to content on the Internet.p> body> html> 

• Since we added the text-indent property to just the first paragraph, that is the only paragraph that will be indented. Read on to learn how to indent all paragraphs on the page the same way instead of just one!

Create a style section for your CSS. If we want to indent all paragraphs on our page, we can do so by defining the paragraph style in CSS. The style section goes into the head of your HTML code, or on a separate style sheet. Let’s add ours to the head, which is between the and tags:

 html> head> title>wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.title> style> style> head> body> p style="text-indent:10px">Welcome to wikiHow, the most trusted how-to site on the internet. wikiHow is where trusted research and expert knowledge come together.p> p>Since 2005, wikiHow has helped billions of people learn how to solve problems large and small. We work with credentialed experts, a team of trained researchers, and a devoted community to create the most reliable, comprehensive and delightful how-to content on the Internet.p> body> html> 

Type the indenting code into the style area. So, we want every paragraph to begin with 10px of space, not just one. This means we’ll need to create a style for the paragraph tag (

) that automatically adds 10px of space to the beginning of the first word in each paragraph. We’ll also want to remove the text-indent property from our original example, as it won’t be needed anymore. The property should look like this:

 html> head> title>wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.title> style> p  text:indent: 10px; style> head> body> p>Welcome to wikiHow, the most trusted how-to site on the internet. wikiHow is where trusted research and expert knowledge come together.p> p>Since 2005, wikiHow has helped billions of people learn how to solve problems large and small. We work with credentialed experts, a team of trained researchers, and a devoted community to create the most reliable, comprehensive and delightful how-to content on the Internet.p> body> html> 

• You can adjust the number of spaces by typing a different number after «text-indent:».
• You can use unites other than pixels to define the size of your indent, such as percentage (i.e. «text-indent: 15%;») or measurements (e.g., «text-indent: 3mm;»).

Type

at the beginning of each paragraph. Since we’ve added specific instructions to indent the

tag, every paragraph on the page will be indented 2.5em. This goes for our existing paragraphs, and any new paragraphs we add to the page.

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CSS Text Spacing

In this chapter you will learn about the following properties:

• text-indent
• letter-spacing
• line-height
• word-spacing
• white-space

Text Indentation

The text-indent property is used to specify the indentation of the first line of a text:

Example

Letter Spacing

The letter-spacing property is used to specify the space between the characters in a text.

The following example demonstrates how to increase or decrease the space between characters:

Example

Line Height

The line-height property is used to specify the space between lines:

Example

Word Spacing

The word-spacing property is used to specify the space between the words in a text.

The following example demonstrates how to increase or decrease the space between words:

Example

White Space

The white-space property specifies how white-space inside an element is handled.

This example demonstrates how to disable text wrapping inside an element:

Example

The CSS Text Spacing Properties

Property	Description
letter-spacing	Specifies the space between characters in a text
line-height	Specifies the line height
text-indent	Specifies the indentation of the first line in a text-block
white-space	Specifies how to handle white-space inside an element
word-spacing	Specifies the space between words in a text

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