Space Character

To add a regular space click where you want to add the space and press the spacebar.

Space character. Normally html will only display one space between words no matter how many times you press the space bar. Types of spaces figure space hard space non breaking space paren space thin space visible space whitespace character hair spaces around dashes zero width space. The space must be wide enough to separate individual words but narrow enough to encourage grouping into sentences and paragraphs.

Ascii code 250 interpunct or space dot ascii code 251 superscript one exponent 1 first power ascii code 252 superscript three exponent 3 cube third power ascii code 253 superscript two exponent 2 square second power ascii code 254 black square. They look like a space but are in fact a different unicode character. Let s say you want to use an empty value in a website or application but spaces are not accepted.

If you write 10 spaces in your text the browser will remove 9 of them. Press space to add a normal space. In computer character encodings there is a normal general purpose space unicode character u 0020 whose width will vary according to the design of the typeface.

Three per em space u 2004 in all the modern browsers the above works correctly or better. The non breaking hyphen is used to define a hyphen character that does not break into a new line. To add real spaces to your text you can use the character entity.

Pre is in effect last two sets. As expected with small variations among them. The word space is the character you get when you press the space bar.

Typical values range from 1 5 em to 1 3 em in digital typography an em is equal to the nominal size of the font so for a 10 point font the space will probably be between 2 and 3 3 points. The word space is a character with an inherent conflict of interest. It s the most common whitespace character.