# A sequence of white spaces in a field

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/a-sequence-of-white-spaces-in-a-field/15095>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v3\
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/a-sequence-of-white-spaces-in-a-field/15095 "2019-07-29T19:52:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![franck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@franck](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/franck)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/a-sequence-of-white-spaces-in-a-field/15095/1 "2019-07-29T19:52:44Z")

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Can you have a sequence of white spaces in a field and retrieve the sequence, not collapsed into a single white space?

I tried to wrap the text in quotes or backticks but the quotes are visible in the output html.

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**Author:** ![texnixe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/texnixe/32/5754_2.png) [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/a-sequence-of-white-spaces-in-a-field/15095/2 "2019-07-29T20:36:01Z")

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What about using html entities (`&nbsp;`, `&ensp;` etc.)?

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**Author:** ![franck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@franck](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/franck)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/a-sequence-of-white-spaces-in-a-field/15095/3 "2019-07-30T06:07:52Z")

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It works 🙂  
Thank you!