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A template to produce one or more non-breaking spaces ( character entities), or another type of spaces.
Usage
Syntax
{{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 (<syntaxhighlight inline lang=xml> </syntaxhighlight>) 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
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
| Name (alias) |
→Instance← |
Example code and ... | Using {{spaces}} | Output | Output {{spaces}} |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| none | →← |
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text[1]</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text[2]</syntaxhighlight> |
Text[1] Text[2] |
||
| Hair (Very thin) |
→ ←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [3]</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [4]</syntaxhighlight> |
Text{{spaces|hair}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text [1] Text [2] |
Text [1] Text [2] |
| 2-pixel | →←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text[5]</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text[6]</syntaxhighlight> |
Text[1] Text[2] |
||
| Narrow no-break | → ←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [7]</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [8]</syntaxhighlight> |
Text [1] Text [2] |
||
| Thin | → ←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [9]</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [10]</syntaxhighlight> |
Text{{spaces|thin}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text [1] Text [2] |
Text [1] Text [2] |
| Standard[a] | → ←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [11]</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">Text [12]</syntaxhighlight> |
Text{{spaces}}<ref>...</ref>
|
Text [1] | Text [1] Text [2] |
| En | → ←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">1 3</syntaxhighlight> | 1{{spaces|en}}3
|
1 3 | 1 3 |
| Figure | → ←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">123 1 3</syntaxhighlight> |
123<br/>1{{spaces|fig}}3
|
123 1 3 |
123 1 3 |
| Em | → ←
|
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="">1 3</syntaxhighlight> | 1{{spaces|em}}3
|
1 3 | 1 3 |
- ^ Provided here by a non-breaking space ( ).
Template data
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
- 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