Adding White Spaces

White spaces are blank spaces between things. They include:

Indenting: <dd>
Blank lines: or
Individual Spaces (can be done with <pre> and </pre>)

For HTML documents, browsers usually ignore more than one white space in a row.
So, if you had this in your HTML file:

		Two tabs,       seven spaces,


and a couple blank lines.

It would come out like this:

Two tabs, seven spaces, and a couple blank lines.

Indenting

<dd> can be used in a list to indent each item in the list.

This is normal text.
<dl><dd>This is indented text.</dl>
This is normal text.

This is indented text.

Adding blank lines

is a linefeed (like pressing return at the end of a sentence):

This is my first line, and this is my second.
This is my first line,
and this is my second.

Spacing between paragraphs

is like two carriage returns if you use it right after text. It was meant to set apart full paragraphs. Some people use with it, but you don't really need it.

Two or more 's in a row do the same thing as just one.

This is my first line,and this is my second.

This is my first line,

and this is my second.

Pre-formatted text

But, you don't always have to use those to add white space. You can use <pre> and </pre> instead. I used it in the first example above where there were multiple spaces between words.

Sometimes, it changes the font of the text, though. For example:

<pre>
Depending on your browser, the font of the text may be different.
</pre>

Depending on your browser, the font of the text may be different.

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