Significant whitespace in SVG embedded in HTML

You can use this css property on the text element :

text { white-space: pre; }


This works for me in Chrome and Firefox, but not IE9:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html><head> 
  <meta charset="utf-8" /><title>Whitespace in SVG in HTML</title>
</head><body>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
  <text font-size="10" fill="black">
    <tspan dy="10" xml:space="preserve">hi—h i—h  i—h     i</tspan>
  </text>
</svg>
</body></html>

Even the SVG-in-XHTML version doesn't work in IE9:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"><head> 
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Whitespace in SVG in HTML</title>
</head><body>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
  <text font-size="10" fill="black">
    <tspan dy="10" xml:space="preserve">hi—h i—h  i—h     i</tspan>
  </text>
</svg>
</body></html>

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Xml

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Whitespace

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