.html() jQuery method bizzare bug - resolves to empty space locally, but not on production

Question

I'm making a simple jquery command:

element.html("                 ");

using the attributes/html method: http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/html

It works on my local app engine server, but it doesn't work once I push to the Google server. The element empties but doesn't fill with spaces.

So instead of " " (6 spaces) it's just "".

Once again, this is running on App Engine, but I don't think that should matter...

Answer 1

You could try generating the space during run-time, so it won't be trimmed or whatever happens during transport:

element.html(String.fromCharCode(32));