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Use care when enabling this feature, however. If you are used to having extra spaces
ignored, you may inadvertently add undesired spaces within your text.
If you normally create paper documentation, you may be used to adding two spaces between
sentences. For online documentation, use only a single space after a period. Adding two spaces
not only goes against the norm, it??™s more work and can increase your file size by inserting all those extra
nonbreaking spaces!
Dreamweaver offers other methods for inserting a nonbreaking space. You can enter its character code??”
??”directly into the HTML code or you can use the Nonbreaking Space button in the Characters
menu in the Text category of the Insert bar. You can also style your text as preformatted; this technique is
discussed later in this chapter.
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Working with Text 8
Cascading Style Sheets offer another method for indenting the first line of a paragraph. You
can set an existing HTML tag, such as

, to any indent amount using the Text Indent option
found on the Block panel of the Style Sheet dialog box. You can find a full discussion of text indent and other
style sheet controls in Chapter 7.
Working with preformatted text
Browsers ignore formatting niceties considered irrelevant to page content: tabs, extra line feeds, indents,
and added whitespace.

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