# Knocking spaces between words without editing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/knocking-spaces-between-words-without-editing/87783>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [May 17, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/knocking-spaces-between-words-without-editing/87783 "2018-05-17T22:45:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/knocking-spaces-between-words-without-editing/87783/5 "2018-05-18T17:33:58Z")

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I’ve seen that bug before but couldn’t get a consistent repro.

Took me longer than I wanted but thanks to the [`normalize()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/normalize) method this should not happen anymore 🍍

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e209faa6cf0987ccab7903403782bd5763e0ee77](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e209faa6cf0987ccab7903403782bd5763e0ee77)

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