Bug 38902 – contenteditable and  

• Status: NEW
• Component: HTML Editing

[Novak]

Hi
when im using 

...<div contenteditable="true">
something#nbsp;unbreakable#nbsp;text
</div> ...

or &#160; 'replacement' for nbsp; was displayed always as normal (wrapped) text 

tested in safari 4.0.5 (531.22.7) 
or/and Qt 4.5.0 webkit (both mingw, Visual Studio 2008 compilation)
or/and Qt 4.6.1 webkit (both mingw, Visual Studio 2008 compilation)

i dont no, if this is a bug or feature.

thanks for reply or solution 
J.N.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This is pretty much the same as bug 12828, but that focuses on typing. Maybe there is a closer dupe that I couldn't find.

WebKit HTML editing thinks that it can use non-breaking spaces to simulate runs of spaces, and thus loses the no-break feature, sadly.

[Tomas]

Still present in Safari 14.0 (15610.1.28.1.9, 15610)
macOS 10.15.7

[Ryosuke Niwa]

The workaround here is to use: word-wrap: initial; -webkit-nbsp-mode: initial;