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Asked: 2026-05-13T08:29:47+00:00

A carriage return in my html code causes a visual space in the rendered

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A carriage return in my html code causes a visual space in the rendered html in Explorer 8. I’m guessing this will affect other versions too.

For example:

<span>
(111)&nbsp;
222-
3333&nbsp;
444444
</span>

looks like this:

(111)  222- 3333  444444

There should be only 1 space after the first bracket, no space after the dash and only 1 space after the last 3. I like the carriage returns for code readability, is it possible go keep then and still get the html to render properly in IE?

Here’s the doctype information:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Edit:
I’m actually doing this in an ASP.NET MVC 2 app, and the aspx template markup is quite verbose which is why I’ve tried to seperate it into multiple lines:

<span>
(<%=((Model == null || Model.AreaCode == null) ? "" : Model.AreaCode).PadRight(3)%>)&nbsp;
<%=((Model == null || Model.Prefix == null) ? "" : Model.Prefix).PadRight(3)%>-
<%=((Model == null || Model.Suffix == null) ? "" : Model.Suffix).PadRight(4)%>&nbsp;
<%=(Model == null || Model.Extension == null) ? "" : Model.Extension%>
</span>
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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a scenario where sprintf type functions really shine. In the .NET world these are handled by String.Format. Here’s the MSDN documentation and you could rewrite the code something like this:

    <span>
<%= String.Format("({0:###}) {1:###}-{2:####} {3}", Model.AreaCode, Model.Prefix, Model.Suffix, Model.Extension); %>
</span>

    I’m a little rusty on the .NET string format syntax, so no guarantees on that code snippet. Here’s another link:

    http://blog.stevex.net/string-formatting-in-csharp/

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