Extra spaces in edit & view mode

That doesn’t tell me what the spaces are for. Why do you need several following spaces? Your deleted post explained more. It sounds like you use them to align text. That’s not what non-breaking spaces are for. — that’s what margin, padding and other CSS things are for. Using a CSS snippet would also free you from typing extra spaces every time.

If you lack the patience to work with Obsidian’s difficult CSS, you can put spans around your non-breaking spaces to make Obsidian recognize them as HTML: <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>.