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what's the context of this? are you doing this in SharePoint, Drupal, WordPress? <br />
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It may be possible to negate this in css, but you didn't do it accidentally, more likely there's some sort of javascript or serverside processing that's removing the spaces.<br />
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the snippet you posted, is it from your IDE (from your development product)? or is it rendered html (from your browser)?
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How does that answer the question?
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This is what has helped me find the solution. &nbsp;Please lets move on from here.<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41505144-1"><span>&lt;span class=&quot;paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patience&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Passion&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; strong and barely controllable emotion.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;strong&gt;Persistance&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. &lt;/span&gt;</span>
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The &amp;nbsp; are not adding spaces. &nbsp;Is the &quot;Class&quot; overriding this? &nbsp;Can't figure it out.<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-28927861-1"><span>&lt;span class=&quot;paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patience&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Passion&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; strong and barely controllable emotion.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;strong&gt;Persistance&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. &lt;/span&gt;</span>
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The &nbsp; are not adding spaces.  Is the "Class" overriding this?  Can't figure it out.

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Spaces not spacing

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