Sorry about that, sent in HTML by accident. Original problem was as below. I'm not sure why I couldn't get the   characters to display, but I solved my particular problem by adding to the CSS: white-space: nowrap; Thanks, Anthony. -- Hi, I've written a small module that outputs some list data using theme_item_list() and I've styled the items so that they are inline. My problem is that my actual list items are breaking and ruining the indent I've set up and individual items are wrapping over more than one line. I thought I could use   characters to stop this, so used a str_replace to replace spaces with the string   but now the literal " " string is appearing instead of the non breaking space I wanted. Any ideas? TIA, Anthony.