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Browser Whitespace

Explore how browsers handle whitespace characters like spaces, tabs, and line breaks in HTML. Understand the default collapsing behavior and how to modify it using HTML elements to improve your web layouts.

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Let’s say that we have an HTML file with the following contents inside:

C++
This is just some random text.
We can tag it,but we don't have to.
Notice that the browser does not honor any white space, except
single
    whitespace
       characters
It doesn't honor ENTERs and TABs.

Here’s a quick question: how will the above text display in the browser?

In other words, will the browser display the above text with the same formatting, or ...