How to add empty spaces into MD markdown readme on

Question

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

Right now it looks like this:

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  . Maybe there's a more elegant way to format it?

Answer 1

Markdown really changes everything to html and html collapses spaces so you really can't do anything about it. You have to use the   for it. A funny example here that I'm writing in markdown and I'll use couple of         here.

Above there are some   without backticks

Answer 2

As a workaround, you can use a code block to render the code literally. Just surround your text with triple backticks ```. It will look like this:

2018-07-20 Wrote this answer Can format it without &nbsp; Also don't need <br /> for new line

Note that using <pre> and <code> you get slightly different behaviour: &nbsp and <br /> will be parsed rather than inserted literally.

<pre>:

2018-07-20 Wrote this answer
           Can format it without  
    Also don't need 
 for new line

<code>: 2018-07-20 Wrote this answer Can format it without   Also don't need
for new line

Answer 3

Instead of using HTML entities like   and   (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 />

Answer 4

You can use <pre> to display all spaces & blanks you have typed. E.g.:

<pre>
hello, this is
   just an     example
....
</pre>

Answer 5

After different tries, I end up to a solution since most markdown interpreter support Math environment. The following adds one white space :

$~$

And here ten:

$~~~~~~~~~~~$

Answer 6

Markdown gets converted into HTML/XHMTL.

John Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004 in collaboration with Aaron Swartz on the syntax, with the goal of enabling people to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, and optionally convert it to structurally valid HTML (or XHTML).

HTML is completely based on using   for adding extra spaces if it doesn't externally define/use JavaScript or CSS for elements.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It is designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name.

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If you want to use »

1. only one space » either use   or just hit Spacebar (2nd one is good choice in this case)

2. more than one space » use  +space (for 2 consecutive spaces)

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eg. If you want to add 10 spaces contiguously then you should use

                   

 space space space space space

instead of using 10   one after one as the below one

          

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For more details check

1. Adding multiple spaces between text in Markdown,
2. How to create extra space in HTML or web page.