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A template to produce one or more non-breaking spaces (
character entities).
Usage
Syntax
Template:Larger 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
.
Template:Larger 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
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) - Template:Tlg to stop the linewrapping of any part of Template:Var
Template:Inline spacing templates