# Preceding and trailing spaces are ignored with text input

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/preceding-and-trailing-spaces-are-ignored-with-text-input/21735>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [15 February 2020 05:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/preceding-and-trailing-spaces-are-ignored-with-text-input/21735 "2020-02-15T05:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [15 February 2020 09:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/preceding-and-trailing-spaces-are-ignored-with-text-input/21735/3 "2020-02-15T09:24:40Z")

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😂... but seriously, if the input is trimming whitespace by default, it does feel like there should be an option to not do that. It isn't for us to decide what is valid input or not.

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