You can use style="white-space: pre-wrap" on a div, and deal with the structure later. You'll still be able to use links and images, and the text will not look

You can use style="white-space: pre-wrap" on a div, and deal with the structure later. You'll still be able to use links and images, and the text will not look like a turd, before you get to finishing up the structure. At that point you can remove the pre-wrap style.