Question

I thought that &nbsp was necessary any time you wanted more than one space character to show up in html, but this site is showing me that multiple consecutive spaces are all being rendered… why is that?

Answer 1

If you look closely at the source (before it is interpreted by a browser), you’ll find that the website does in fact use   very heavily in the site:

Example (before the ONE FOR THE ROAD line)

<span style="line-height: 23px;"class="style_3">
    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span>

<span style="line-height: 23px; " class="style_1">
    ONE FOR THE ROAD
</span>

Try saving the page to your computer (with the browser’s saving functionality, not copy-paste), and view the source in Notepad or a similar text editor, and you will see the   entity everywhere.