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A template to produce one or more non-breaking spaces (
character entities).
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 (
) are produced. A non-breaking space has the same width as a standard space, whose width is between the width of en
and thin
.
{{space|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.
Template data
TemplateData for Spaces
<templatedata> {
"description": "Inserts one or more non-breaking spaces", "params": { "1": { "label": "Quantity", "description": "How many non-breaking spaces to insert", "type": "number", "default": "1" } }
} </templatedata>
See also
- {{pad}} to add inline spacing in units of px, em or ex
- {{0}} to add invisible characters
- {{nowrap|item}} to stop the linewrapping of any part of item
- {{nb5}} to insert five non-breaking spaces
- {{indent}} indents by a specified number of spaces (with leading newline)
- {{in5}} indents by five or a specified number of spaces (with no leading newline)
- {{block indent}}, to indent an entire block of content, similar to a block quotation (uses
<div>
and CSS margins) - {{sp}}, to add regular, breaking space