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A template to produce one or more non-breaking spaces (
character entities), or another type of spaces.
Usage
[edit]Syntax
[edit]{{spaces|N|type}}
produces N consecutive non-breaking spaces (where N is a whole number larger than zero) of the type specified by the second parameter (which are ordered by decreasing space width): em
, fig
, en
, thin
, hair
. If type is not specified, N non-breaking spaces (
) are produced. A non-breaking space has the same width as a standard space, whose width is between the width of en
and thin
.
{{spaces|type}}
produces a single non-breaking space of the type indicated.
Controlling line-breaking in infoboxes
[edit]This template, usually as its alias {{nbsp}}
, may be used with {{wbr}}
and {{nowrap}}
to control line-breaking in bulletless lists in infoboxes, to prevent wrapped long entries from being confused with multiple entries. See Template:Wbr/doc#Controlling line-breaking in infoboxes for details.
Comparisons
[edit]Name (alias) |
→ Instance← |
Example code and ... | Using {{spaces}} | Output | Output {{spaces}} |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
none | → ← |
Text<ref>...</ref> ''Text''<ref>...</ref>
|
Text[1] Text[2] |
||
Hair (Very thin) |
→ ←
|
Text{{hair space}}<ref>...</ref> ''Text''{{hair space}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text{{spaces|hair}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text [1] Text [2] |
Text [1] Text [2] |
2-pixel | → ←
|
Text{{px2}}<ref>...</ref> ''Text''{{px2}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text Text [2] |
[1]||
Narrow no-break | → ←
|
Text{{narrow no-break space}}<ref>...</ref> ''Text''{{narrow no-break space}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text [1] Text [2] |
||
Thin | → ←
|
Text{{thin space}}<ref>...</ref> ''Text''{{thin space}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text{{spaces|thin}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text [1] Text [2] |
Text [1] Text [2] |
Standard[a] | → ←
|
Text <ref>...</ref> ''Text'' <ref>...</ref>
|
Text{{spaces}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text [1] | Text [1] Text [2] |
En | → ←
|
1 3
|
1{{spaces|en}}3
|
1 3 | 1 3 |
Figure | → ←
|
123<br/>1{{figure space}}3
|
123<br/>1{{spaces|fig}}3
|
123 1 3 |
123 1 3 |
Em | → ←
|
1 3
|
1{{spaces|em}}3
|
1 3 | 1 3 |
- ^ Provided here by a non-breaking space ( ).
Template data
[edit]TemplateData for Spaces
Inserts one or more non-breaking spaces
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Quantity | 1 | How many non-breaking spaces to insert
| Number | optional |
Type | 2 | Non-default types (in decreasing order of width): em, fig, en, thin, hair
| String | optional |
See also
[edit]- Template:Non breaking hyphen
- Help:Advanced text formatting
- {{0}} to add invisible characters
- {{block indent}} to indent an entire block of content, similar to a block quotation (uses
<div>
and CSS margins) - {{nowrap|item}} to stop the linewrapping of any part of item