Spaces in the comment

hohoo

If user intentionally leave some spaces between the words, Vanilla will remove all those blank spaces.
It will against some users' original idea, they may just draw a txt image, or they may just organize their comments in certain format.
I tried my comments via firefox in text and html format, both of them do not work.

You can try if you want to draw an empty square, it will be squashed like
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hohoo

Do you get my idea?

birdmanx35

Yep, happened to me too.

WallPhone

Try your HTML mode with <code> tags around it:
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hohoo

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Yeah, you are right. While, it is not that intuitive.

MySchizoBuddy

I would use a pre tag

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Minisweeper

Isnt that just the way standard text works though? The spaces which get put in by a space bar are soft spaces (ascii character #32) not hard spaces (ascii character #160, iirc). Multiple soft spaces will be compacted to a single one, hard spaces stay. I doubt it's vanillas fault per se, though I guess it could be possible to 'fix' it.

rus bowden

In poetry, these are called caesura, when the spaces are more than the usual one. To poets, such formatting is critical to presentation. So, the <pre> tag is learned, but so is the non-breaking space: &nbsp

Using &nbsp, typing in this:

we leapt &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; to the other side

results in this:

we leapt                 to the other side

Rus