diff --git a/web/src/main/frontend/components/content.cljs b/web/src/main/frontend/components/content.cljs
index 4338f873f..12cb9bbda 100644
--- a/web/src/main/frontend/components/content.cljs
+++ b/web/src/main/frontend/components/content.cljs
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
                 :dangerouslySetInnerHTML {:__html html}}]))
 
           :else                       ; other text formats
-          [:div.cursor
+          [:div.cursor.pre-line-white-space
            {:id id
             :on-click on-click}
            (if (string/blank? content)