The leading and trailing blank spaces in a title or footnote can be preserved by specifying the attribute ASIS=ON. The default value for this attribute is OFF, which ignores the blank spaces. When the value is set to ON, the nonbreaking space character is inserted. In HTML,   is the nonbreaking space character. In the RTF destination, \~ is the nonbreaking space character.

   proc template;
     define style styles.test;
        parent=styles.default;
          style systemtitle from systemtitle
           "Style element responsible for titles " /
               asis=on;
          style systemfooter from systemfooter
           "Style element responsible for footnotes " /
               asis=on;
   end;
   run;

   ods html file='temp.html' style=styles.test;

   proc print data=sashelp.class;
   title 'this    is    spaced   out';
   run;

   ods html close;

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