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I need to allow users to insert leading spaces in their text. It appears that the default text field chopps off all leading spaces. I tried ckeditor and BUEeditor but they appear also to remove leading spaces, and I don't see any way to prevent that.

If possible, I don't want to use any text editor if possible.

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  • That's how HTML works, and what the   character exists for. Trying to hold on to leading spaces is almost definitely the sign of an incorrect approach; styling should be done with CSS, not characters
    – Clive ♦
    Mar 31, 2015 at 14:39
  • The users need to indent the text they insert the way they want, using spaces.
    – Yuri
    Mar 31, 2015 at 14:44
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    I understood the question, I was just saying that it's not a Drupal/Ckeditor/BUeditor/AnythingElseEditor issue. The display of multiple concurrent spaces is handled by HTML & CSS specs, as you've already discovered yourself from the looks of your answer
    – Clive ♦
    Mar 31, 2015 at 15:16

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A very simple solution I found using the class white-space: pre;

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