I've gotten frustrated with the "Code Wrapping Off" checkbox in my user settings (too many people posting REALLY long lines) so I decided to start using the "Code Prefix" option to make it obvious when lines wrap.

The basic usage is straight forward, the example of "&001;:&nbsp;" works fine, but I wanted it to stand out a little more, so I tried changing it to "<font color="red">&001;:</font>&nbsp"

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work ... when I view source on a page with code, the first line renders as "<font&nbsp;color="red">001:</font>&nbsp;" (ie: something is converting the " " i put inside the font tag into "&nbsp;")

Is this is bug (or possibly a feature gone bad) in the user settings code? Is there a way arround it?

In reply to Spaces in " Code Prefix" ? by hossman

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