The HTML entity can do some of that. But for most purposes, CSS is the preferred way controlling page layout.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Hi,
Try this one for space like " "
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
<h:outputText value=" " escape="false" />
and use this on for "BR"
<%@ taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk" prefix="t"%>
<t:htmlTag value="br"/> or
<h:outputText value="br" escape="false" />