How do I keep WordPress from formatting out leading spaces?

formatting, plugins, wordpress

Solution

Use the code editor (NOT Visual) and wrap your code in

<pre></pre>

tags. Then format appropriately in your theme's CSS.

Here's Wordpress' explanation

Problem

I'm trying to post some code snippets on my WordPress blog, but when I copy and paste, it strips out all the leading spaces from each line of code. It doesn't seem to have a problem with leading spaces being there in general, since I can add them back in manually, but it doesn't like them being pasted in for whatever reason. Is there some plugin I can use, or some simple code modification I can make, to make it accept the code I paste in without trying to format it for me?

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