[html] How to add white spaces in HTML paragraph

I want to do something like that

< p >

This is question 1-------------------(1)

This is question 2-------------------(2)

< / p >

but replace the dashes with spaces how can I do that.

If you really need then you can use i.e.   entity to do that, but remember that fonts used to render your page are usually proportional, so "aligning" with spaces does not really work and looks ugly.

You can try it by adding