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I have long recognized that any set of whitespace in an HTML file will only be displayed as a single space. For instance, this:
<p>Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.</p> displays as:
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
This is perfectly fine, as if you need multiple spaces of pre-formatted text you can just use the <pre> tag. But what is the reason? More precisely, why is this in the specification for HTML?
Spaces are compacted in HTML because there’s a distinction between how HTML is formatted and how it should be rendered. Consider a page like this:
If the HTML was indented using spaces for example, the link would be preceded by several spaces.