I attempt to fix a bug in IE8 that erases the white space in

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Asked: June 14, 20262026-06-14T02:29:27+00:00 2026-06-14T02:29:27+00:00

I attempt to fix a bug in IE8 that erases the white space in an element when I use innerHTML

one example in html:

Association football is a

<b>
   <span >Association football</span>
</b>
<span>
    is a 
</span>

when I do this in javascript:

spans=document.getElementsByTagName('span');

for (var i=0;i<spans.length; i++){
  spans[i].outerHTML = spans[i].innerHTML;
}

the results are

Association footballis a

and I need that it not remove the whitespace

ball is

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