white-space

Browser/User Agent Support

IE	Netscape	Mozilla	Opera	Safari
5.5+	4.0+	1.0+	9.0+	1.0+
IE: IE only supports the "pre" value for white-space. Mozilla: Support for white-space is incomplete. Opera: Opera almost has full support for the white-space attribute. Safari: Support for white-space is incomplete.

Values

normal	Collapse whitespace normally.
pre	Do not collapse whitespace.
nowrap	Collapse whitespace unless specified otherwise by an appropriate tag (e.g. br).
pre-wrap	Prevents user agents from collapsing sequences of whitespace.
pre-line	User agents should collapse sequences of whitespace.

Example

For a demonstration of the white-space attribute for table columns, see the demo page on quirksmode:

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/whitespace.html

Availability

W3C CSS2

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