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title: "💭 white-space - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN"
description: "!https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space"
date: 2024-04-30
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html can preserve newline `\n` characters by styling an element with `white-space: pre-wrap;`

> pre-wrap
    Sequences of white space are preserved. Lines are broken at newline characters, at <br>, and as necessary to fill line boxes.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>