jQuery.html() - removes double spaces on IE7 and IE8

[Agnius101]

1. Set html value with double spaces:

$("#list").html('<li>List item with double spaces.</li>');

2. Get html value:

$("#list").html();

3. html() function returns value without double spaces on IE7 and IE8, while it returns expected value on IE9, FF and Chrome.

See example on and check console output:  http://jsfiddle.net/L6zq6/1/

[sindresorhus]

This is not a jQuery issue. Using alert( document.getElementById("list").innerHTML ); alerts the same thing on IE7/8

You could of course use <pre> or CSS white-space: pre to keep the whitespace. You could also replace the whitespace with the whitespace entitity &nbsp;