# PreserveWhitespace option inserts unexpected whitespace
**URL:** https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/preservewhitespace-option-inserts-unexpected-whitespace/3047
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/preservewhitespace-option-inserts-unexpected-whitespace/3047 "2020-07-28T17:18:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@joelc](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/joelc)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/preservewhitespace-option-inserts-unexpected-whitespace/3047/1 "2020-07-28T17:18:45Z")
I need to preserve whitespace at the beginning of paragraphs, which is what it seems like the `preserveWhitespace` option was intended to allow.
The problem is with this option set to true, it inserts a space character after any `
` node, and if set to ‘full’, it inserts a newline character after any `
` node. This does not seem like intended behavior.
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### Author:  [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/preservewhitespace-option-inserts-unexpected-whitespace/3047/2 "2020-07-30T09:27:09Z")
I assume [this issue](https://github.com/ProseMirror/prosemirror/issues/1079) is also from you. Please don’t use multiple channels to report the same thing, it just clogs up notifications.
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### Author:  [@joelc](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/joelc)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/preservewhitespace-option-inserts-unexpected-whitespace/3047/3 "2020-07-30T13:17:49Z")
Sorry, thanks for the help! I noticed this discuss page seemed to have a lot more eyeballs on it than the github repo, sorry again.