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• tangerine Posts: 3,348Questions: 36Answers: 394

  June 2017

  I get WH MCL 1, so one of the spaces is dropped.

  Looks like two spaces to me.

  When I view the source

  What "source"? HTML? Database?
• MickB Posts: 103Questions: 25Answers: 2

  June 2017 edited June 2017

  No, it is one space:

  WH MCL 1
  

  The HTML source which has two spaces:

    <td>
          WH  MCL 1 - WH  SB  1
     </td>
  
  

  Mick
• rduncecb Posts: 125Questions: 2Answers: 28

  June 2017 Answer ✓

  Umm, spaces are compacted in HTML, how HTML is formatted and how it should be rendered are not connected. If you need to retain multiple spaces you'd need to write a datatables column renderer that either puts the value in pre tags or changes the spaces to no break spaces.
• MickB Posts: 103Questions: 25Answers: 2

  June 2017

  That unfortunately sounds like the correct answer.
• rduncecb Posts: 125Questions: 2Answers: 28

  June 2017 edited June 2017

  In your column definition, add:

  render: function(data, type, row, meta) {
      if(type !== 'display')
          return data;
      
      return data.replace(/\s/g, ' ');
  }
  

  Per docs: https://datatables.net/reference/option/columns.render
• allan Posts: 61,669Questions: 1Answers: 10,096 Site admin

  June 2017

  Another option is use to the white-space CSS property. Set it to pre and your double spaces should be shown as expected.

  Allan