![]() NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE, which is generally treated In line breaking, so you may wish to use some technique to However, the fixed-width spaces act as normal spaces Usually best corresponds to the width of a normal unstretched It is better to use fixed-width spaces instead. To prevent stretching (e.g., as in 5 m instead On web browsers, no-break spaces tended to be non-adjustable,īut modern browsers generally stretch them on justification.Īuthors may have used no-break spaces instead of normal spaces In adjusted text, spaces and no-break spaces have different effects. The common practice has been to treat themĪs having fixed width (in each font), which means that This does not specify what should happen to them in ![]() It may shrink them, too, especially in typesetting.Īre defined in Unicode as having the same width as spaces. Justification often just makes spaces wider, though Sense that they are presented in different widths, especially Space characters are often “adjustable” in the In text processing, Web page display, and other contexts, The use of various space characters of specificĬonsider using other methods, such as theįeatures of a text processing program or (on Web pages) CSS properties like Moreover, font substitution may cause undesired effects, since the widths See Guide to using special characters in HTML. If some of the fonts in the system contain it. Modern browsers can usually find a glyph for a character One program to another or may be viewed using different fonts. Needed especially when text data may need to be transferred from The situation has improved over the years, but caution is still Many commonly used fonts lack some of the space characters. Notes on support in browsers and other software THIN SPACE glyph typically varies between 0.1 em and 0.2 em). 0.125 em, as opposite to the suggested 0.2 em) “thin space”, are used in publishing software, the meanings can be rather different.įor example, in InDesign, “thin space” is now 1/8 em Moreover, when concepts with the same names, such as In the standard, and implementations may deviate considerably even from the The characters U+2007…U+200A and U+202F have no exact width assigned to them Their widths are defined in terms of the em unit, i.e. The specific width defined for them, though small deviations exist. The characters U+2000…U+2006, when implemented in a font, usually have If normal processing rules would allow that. Them together, so that they no line breaking appears between them even ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE can be used between two characters to “glue” ZERO WIDTH SPACE, when supported, can be used to indicate a line breaking ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (U+FEFF) were never classifiedĪs space characters in Unicode, despite their name. Was classified as a space character, now as formatting characters (with no width). The width of ideographic ( CJK) characters. Unspecified usually not really a space but a dash Space characters and “zero-width spaces” in Unicode Codeĭepends on font, typically 1/4 em, often adjusted ![]() This depends on the font used, on the browser,Īnd on the fonts available in the system. Possible that your browser does not present all the space characters Of the space character, in the sense that the cell contains the The third column of the following table shows the appearance That have no width and can thus be described as no-width spaces. This document also lists three characters
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