You want non-breaking spaces for this. They're the same width as a normal space, but don't collapse together in HTML. I once encountered a bizarre bug caused b

You want non-breaking spaces for this. They're the same width as a normal space, but don't collapse together in HTML. I once encountered a bizarre bug caused by a user whose keyboard was somehow configured to automatically insert these if they added two or more sequential spaces. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space Unicode A0 is embedded in my mind because of that.