Question

this is my javascript code:

mystring = "this is sample";
nestring = mystring.replace(/ /g," ");

I need nestring ouput “this is sample”.

but with the code above, nestring = "this is sample"
how can I replace space( ) with &nbsp( )?
Many thanks!

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re:
I embed svg in html. But ie, chrome do not support xml:space=preserve, firefox does. By replace ” ” with &nbsp, multiple ” ” will not condense to one ” “.

Answer 1

You could use the Unicode:

nestring = mystring.replace(/ /g, "\u00a0");

But your example did exactly what you told it to.