Template:Zero width space/doc

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{{Zwsp}} inserts the code <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1"></syntaxhighlight> literally, which produces a U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE in the rendered wiki-page.

Usage

This is a convenience template for the zero-width space character, U+200B (<syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1"></syntaxhighlight>).
It is completely invisible in display, but has the effect of acting as a multi-line breaking point for text inside a word that otherwise would not break. Whitespace and normal dashes (-) are already multi-line breakpoints, but this template allows the special insertion of invisible breakpoints inside words.

The zero-width space character has a higher breaking priority than the hyphen character (-), so when using it in a phrase with hyphen, it is recommended to place a zero-width space immediately after each hyphen as well.

v t e Inline spacing templates
Non-breaking space characters	{{figure space}} {{hair space}} {{narrow no-break space}} {{nb5}} {{ns}} {{quad}} {{spaces}} {{thin space}} {{word joiner}} {{zero width joiner}}
Breaking space characters	{{sp}} {{zero width space}}
Non-character spaces	{{gaps}} {{in5}} {{indent}} {{pad}} {{two pixel space}}

Usage

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