<p>I'm making a simple jquery command:</p>

<p><code>element.html("&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;");</code></p>

<p>using the attributes/html method:  <a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/html</a></p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>So instead of <code>"      "</code> <em>(6 spaces)</em> it's just <code>""</code>. </p>

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

Have you tried using
```
&nbsp;
```
instead of spaces? The
```
html()
```
method just pumps the string into the innerHTML of the element(s).