non-breaking space
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space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- whitespace
- Image
- ISO 7000 - Ref-No 2016.svg
- Width
- 0.5
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- HTML entity
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- Unicode character
- Unicode code point
- 00A0
- TeX string
- ~
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode character name
- NO-BREAK SPACE
- Commons category
- Non-breaking space
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Encyclopedic overview
In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space ( ), also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position. In some formats, including HTML, it also prevents consecutive whitespace characters from collapsing into a single space. Non-breaking space characters with other widths also exist.
Behavior
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “non-breaking space” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.