HTML DOM Style whiteSpace Property

The HTML DOM style whiteSpace property returns and modify how to handle tabs, line breaks, and whitespace in a text of an element in an HTML document.

Syntax

Following is the syntax −

Returning whiteSpace

object.style.whiteSpace

Modifying whiteSpace

object.style.whiteSpace = “value”

Values

Here, value can be −

Value	Explanation
initial	It set this property value to its default value.
inherit	It inherits this property value from its parent element.
normal	In it the sequence of whitespace will collapse into a single one and text will wrap when necessary.
nowrap	In it the sequence of whitespace will collapse into a single one and text will not wrap to the next line.
pre	In it the whitespace is preserved by the browser and text will only wrap when a line break encounter.
pre-line	In it the sequence of whitespace will collapse into a single one and text will only wrap to the next line when necessary.
pre-wrap	In it the whitespace is preserved by the browser and text will only wrap to the next line when necessary.

Example

Let us see an example of HTML DOM style whiteSpace property −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   body {
      color: #000;
      background: lightblue;
      height: 100vh;
   }
   p {
      border: 2px solid #fff;
   }
   .btn {
      background: #db133a;
      border: none;
      height: 2rem;
      border-radius: 2px;
      width: 40%;
      display: block;
      color: #fff;
      outline: none;
      cursor: pointer;
      margin: 1rem 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>DOM Style whiteSpace Property Example</h1>
<p>
   I'm paragraph element with some dummy text. I'm paragraph element with some dummy text.
   I'm paragraph element with some dummy text. I'm paragraph element with some dummy text.
   I'm paragraph element with some dummy text.
</p>
<button onclick="add()" class="btn">Change whiteSpace</button>
<script>
   function add() {
      document.querySelector('p').style.whiteSpace = "pre-line";
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

HTML DOM Style whiteSpace Property

Click on “Change whiteSpace” button to change the behaviour of how to handle whitespaces of paragraph element −

HTML DOM Style whiteSpace Property