Wierd behavious for multiple <span> </span>s

[mongoloid001]

Hi, I had a progress bar using <div> and <span>'s. When I input as
<div>
<span id=1>&nbsp;</span>
<span id=2>&nbsp;</span>
.
.
.
</div>

the progress bar had space in between each span object. But when I put them <span> with some space, the space disappeared,

<div>
<span id=1> &nbsp; </span>
<span id=2> &nbsp; </span>
.
.
.
</div>

Thanks!

[Birdman]

Have you tried using CSS [w3.org] margins on the span classes?

[Purple Martin]

A carriage return in your HTML will render as whitespace in a situation like this. Compare these two things and see what you get:

<span id=1>&nbsp;</span>
<span id=2>&nbsp;</span>

<span id=1>&nbsp;</span><span id=2>&nbsp;</span>