want to remove this hardcoding Ie &nbsp

[J radolf]

  

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so can i move this   and write it somewhere. so that it can be just called instead of writing in several places??

[edited to escape nbsp]

[J radolf]

There are lots of spaces(nbsp) in line 3

i dont want to hardcode it everywhere . i want to keep it as a separate model so that we can use it elsewhere??

anybody with ideas?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

It depends on why you need the spaces. If they are for presentation, you could use css instead of  . If it is part of the text name, you could import it in a JSP (if it is a dynamic page) or write it out using JavaScript if not.

[J radolf]

Thanks for your Reply

its for presentation purpose

actually its for a menu.

so we have a menu

say File when you click file

i have in submenu

Read >
Write >

so the space(nbsp) i used inside <a> Read nbsp nbsp gt </end of a Tag>

[Eric Pascarello]

Learn about CSS's margins and padding

Eric

[J radolf]

Hi Please can anyone paste a small css sample code.

[J radolf]

   
space {
white-space: pre;
}
 

i have added the following css file.

is there any way i can add gt symbol from html to css ??

i want to keep it in a separate css so am asking this question

[J radolf]

is there any way in css alone where i can adjust the space because pre element will have to adjusted in html for spaces.

is there any way i can adjust in css alone like can i make a independent css which wil take care of the spacing?

[J radolf]

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now how can i represent these whitespaces in a separate css?

please give me some sample code.

[Eric Pascarello]

li.dir a{
  display: block;
  width: 130px;  
}

Eric