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Why is &nbsp showing up in my email please advise.

ltarleton

In my Mozilla email at comcast.net,   and & keep showing up, making it difficult to read.

In my Mozilla email at comcast.net, &nbsp and &amp keep showing up, making it difficult to read.

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Can you tell us more information please? You didn't provide enough information.

In my emails through Mozilla and comcast.net, the   and & shows up as text throughout. Apparently where there is supposed to be a space the coding   is in the text. It doesn't happen in internet explorer. Larry Tarleton

Seems like you have a JavaScript problem. Are you using No script?

Could be that the person who sent that email sent it as text, and used HTML coding for a "non-breaking space" by mistake. http://www.htmlbasictutor.ca/non-breaking-space.htm

Is that appearing in emails that are sent by the same person or persons?

It shows up in practically all my emails and even in some stories I open

it says java script is enabled in my browser

Go to the web page and sign in. After the page is loading, mouse to the address bar and LEFT click the icon. A window for displaying site information should come up. Select More Information. Look thru all the menu items.