[Cboldt]

One place where the <pre> and </pre> trick comes in handy, is preserving spaces in a line. HTML compresses multiple spaces into a single space.

Below is a left square brace, 10 spaces, and a right square brace, first in <blockquote>, then in <pre>

[ ]

[          ]

HTML source code:

<blockquote>[          ]</blockquote>
       <pre>[          ]</pre>

[mairdie]

For just a few spaces, I use

& nbsp;& nbsp;& nbsp;

with the spaces removed after the ampersand.

[TEXOKIE]

Thanks for that tip, Cboldt! Captured it with the other note!