# Flash is eating whitespace in my html-formatted text node in xml
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-is-eating-whitespace-in-my-html-formatted-text-node-in-xml/79160
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 11, 2005, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-is-eating-whitespace-in-my-html-formatted-text-node-in-xml/79160 "2005-02-11T08:40:02Z")
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### Author:  [@fideldonson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fideldonson)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-is-eating-whitespace-in-my-html-formatted-text-node-in-xml/79160/1 "2005-02-11T08:40:02Z")
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2] the node that i have placed inside a cdata tag looks like this:
_this is italic/_ _and this is bold/_
I suspect that flash treats the space between the _/i_ and the _b_ as xml-white-space and not as legitimate white space in text, but what can i do about it?
[/size][/font][font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]I am using the cdata delimiter with no success. Apparently flash still sees the whitespace between two html-tags inside the cdata tag as xml and removes it.
Using nonbreakingspace works fine in players version 6 and upwards i think, but not in version 5.
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[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]Any ideas exept doing a manual replace nbsp with space?[/size][/font]