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How to add empty spaces into MD markdown readme on GitHub?

I'm struggling to add empty spaces before the string starts to make my GitHub README.md looks something like this:

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Right now it looks like this:

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I tried adding <br /> tag to fix the new string start, now it works, but I don't understand how to add spaces before the string starts without changing everything to &nbsp;. Maybe there's a more elegant way to format it?

Solution

  • Instead of using HTML entities like &nbsp; and &emsp; (as others have suggested), you can use the Unicode em space (8195 in UTF-8) directly. Try copy-pasting the following into your README.md. The spaces at the start of the lines are em spaces.

    The action of every agent <br />
  into the world <br />
starts <br />
  from their physical selves. <br />