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&lt;!DOCTYPE html>
&lt;html>

&lt;head>
  &lt;title>CSS Example&lt;/title>
  &lt;style>
    body {
        color:#000000;
        background-color:#ffffff;
        font-family:verdana, sans-serif; 
        font-size:12px;}

    .pre    {white-space:pre;}
    .nowrap {white-space:nowrap;}  
  &lt;/style>
&lt;/head>

&lt;body>
&lt;h1>white-space Property&lt;/h1>
&lt;p class="normal">Here is some text inside a paragraph designed to test the white-space property of CSS.&lt;/p>

&lt;p class="pre">    This is the white-space &lt;b>"pre"&lt;/b>
                 Here  is  some 
                 text inside a paragraph 
                 designed to test the white-space property of C   S   S. &lt;/p>

&lt;p class="nowrap">This is white-space &lt;b>"nowrap"&lt;/b> 
The line does not wrap no matter how long it is.
Here is some text inside a paragraph designed to test the white-space property of CSS. Here is some text inside a paragraph designed to test the white-space property of CSS. Here is some text inside a paragraph designed to test the white-space property of CSS.&lt;/p>
&lt;/body>
&lt;/html></pre>