Assertion:
Internet Explorer 4.0 honors all whitespace and carriage returns in the value attribute for this element. The button will preserve and display them 'as-is'. Other browsers and earlier versions of Internet Explorer do not do this.

Plain Input Type=Button field, short value ("button1 button2"), no extra spaces:
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Input Type=Button field, short value ("    button1    button2     "), 4 normal spaces before, in between and after words:
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Input Type=Button field, short value ("    button1    button2     "), 4 non-breaking space character entities before, in between and after words:
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Input Type=button field, short value with linefeed in between ("button1 \n button2"):
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