Show whitespace characters in Visual Studio Code

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eirvandelden picture eirvandelden · May 9, 2015 · Viewed 264.8k times · Source

Is it possible to show whitespace characters, like the space character, in Visual Studio Code?

There doesn't appear to be an option for it in the settings.json (though it is an option in Atom.io), and I haven't been able to display whitespace characters using CSS.

Answer

revo picture revo · May 9, 2015

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

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