Question

I want to insert whitespace in DOM element.

For instance, I want to change this

<a></a>

to this

<a> </a>

If I manually add &nbsp to DOM element, then it renders &nbsp as a whitespace. But when I want to add this dynamically, I use innerText,

 a_element.innertText = "&nbsp"

and as result it doesn’t convert &nbsp to whitespace and renders it as a text (<a>&nbsp</a>). How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Use .innerHTML as you need to edit the HTML of that particular link.

a_element.innerHTML = " "