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&nbsp

Asked by: teera

What is &nbsp ? thank you



 <tr>
        <td><p>04 Password</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
        <?php     $fieldm04 = $_POST['m04'];     ?>
         <td><p> <? echo $fieldm04;  ?></p><br /></td>
      </tr>
        

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2004-05-31 at 07:25:04ID21007982
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Answers

 

by: Duncan_FordPosted on 2004-05-31 at 07:40:47ID: 11196779

&nbsp; is a non-printing blank space.

 

by: Duncan_FordPosted on 2004-05-31 at 07:44:19ID: 11196804

This might give an idea of what it's really used for:

<html>

<table width="100%" height="40%" border="1">
      <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td></td>
      </tr>
<table>
<table width="100%" height="40%" border="1">
      <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
<table>


Without &nbsp; the system sees nothing to print and doesn't render the table cell. With the &nbsp; the system sees a non-printing blank space to print, and as it has something, it renders the cell.

HTH

 

by: ldbkuttyPosted on 2004-05-31 at 08:05:37ID: 11196970

The other use of this character is where you want to show multiple spaces in a text.

Try this:

<html>
<title> multiple space </title>
<body>

<p> These      spaces      will collapse ... These&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;are&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;shown&nbsp;&nbsp;.  
</p>

</body>
</html>
 
The output will be
These spaces will collapse...These     are    shown  .

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dimaroan/htl/faq1.html

 

by: Diablo84Posted on 2004-05-31 at 08:22:27ID: 11197083

&nbsp; is, as stated above a blank space

its most useful purpose is preventing empty table cells from collapsing

adding &nbsp; in a cell that you wish to remain visible in the browser will prevent it from becoming hidden (and hence prevents the cell from collapsing)

it can also be used in other places to space page elements out however there are usually more practical solutoions in these cases (such as using padding on the holding element, a table or div for example)

 

by: seanpowellPosted on 2004-05-31 at 08:56:27ID: 11197306

Just a couple of note here...

To use your original example:
<td><p>04 Password</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p></td>

It has no meaning whatsoever, except to increase the height of the table cell. It's structurally incorrect to do it this way and has no semantic meaning.
You should be using this, for example:

<td style="padding-bottom:10px;"><p>04 Password</p></td>


>>its most useful purpose is preventing empty table cells from collapsing
It is an outdated way of handling it in most cases. This is the standards approach:

<table border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
     <tr>
          <td></td>
          <td></td>
     </tr>
<table>

 

by: fiboPosted on 2004-05-31 at 15:04:11ID: 11198954

Another use for &nbsp; is whan U want to be sure that 2 words would not be on different lines, even though the "normal" page break should occur here. So word1&nbsp;word2 would ALWAYS stand on the same line.

 

by: COBOLdinosaurPosted on 2004-05-31 at 15:13:17ID: 11198989

The format is used to escape the normal HTML treatment of white space.  The format forces teh browser to treat it as a literal.  There are a whole set of named characters that use the same format for characters the browser would normally not treat as a literal or which are difficutl to enter from an keyboard.  There is a list here:

http://www.cwru.edu/help/interHTML/examples/isolist1.html

There is also a numeric format for specifying characters. List is here:

http://www.cwru.edu/help/interHTML/examples/isolist2.html

The numeric list actually goes all the way up to &10000; to handle a complete range of international character types.

If you want to see all teh codes up to 10000 for a given font try this (it takes a minute or two to generate them all)

<html>
<head>
<title> Character Codes </title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function showmsg(lyr)
{
document.getElementById(lyr).innerHTML="<b>Please wait --- 10,000 codes to generate</b>";
}
function gencodes(lyr,fnt)
{
document.getElementById(lyr).style.fontFamily=fnt;
str='<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color:wheat;color:black;font-size:80%">';
str+='<tr><th colspan="10">Numeric Character Codes -- format &amp;#number;</th></tr>';
for(i=1;i<=10000;i++)
{
  if(i%10==1) str+='<tr>';
  str+='<td>'+i+'=&#'+i+';</td>';
  if (i%10==0) str+='</tr>';
}
str+='</table>';
document.getElementById(lyr).innerHTML=str;
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2 id="hdr"> Character Codes</h2>
<form>
Select font:<input type="text" name="thefont">
<input type="button" value="Generate"
onmousedown="showmsg('hdr')" onmouseup="gencodes('container',this.form.thefont.value)">
</form>
<div id="container">&nbsp;</div>
</body>
</html>

Cd&

 

by: m8rixPosted on 2004-05-31 at 23:05:48ID: 11200457

What is &nbsp ?

A HTML text entity referring to a "Non-breakable space".

Idealistically used to prevent browser text automatically "wrapping" to a new line.

 

by: svkarthikPosted on 2004-05-31 at 23:30:42ID: 11200524

&nbsp; -> non breakable white space!
Actually with HTML u cant have a space directly inserted by using ur backspace key in ur keyboard. Even if u type the backsapce key for 'n' number times also... u will find only one space in the output HTML file.

 So to insert more space in ur output HTML file u will use &nbsp;. THis entity of HTML will insert 1 blank space. & every occurrence of &nbsp; is replaced by a space by the HTML engine.

 Hope u get an idea on &nbsp;

 Keyan

 

by: hujiPosted on 2004-06-01 at 05:45:04ID: 11202146

And at last, nbsp is non-brake space.
huji

 

by: hackman_3vilGuyPosted on 2004-06-01 at 09:13:14ID: 11204124

Without a Non-Breaking SPace

Hello           I          am            teera

will be outputted as

Hello I am teera

Try

Hello&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;teera

as everybody else has already explained so I dont know why I am bothering to answer but anyway

 

by: _aaron_Posted on 2004-06-03 at 05:21:39ID: 11221552

VERY SIMPLE ANSWER TO A VERY SIMPLY QUESTION:

<tr>
        <td><p>04 Password</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
        <?php     $fieldm04 = $_POST['m04'];     ?>
         <td><p> <? echo $fieldm04;  ?></p><br /></td>
</tr>

The reason why the &nbsp; was used is so that the returned password (from PHP: <?php     $fieldm04 = $_POST['m04'];     ?> ) is not
inserted directly next to the password.... For example, if the &nbsp; was EXCLUDED (and the returned password was "AbCd" ), you would see:

04 PasswordAbCd

By using the &nbsp; between the "04 Password" and returned PHP value, you are guaranteed that you will see:

04 Password AbCd


;-p


 

by: ZeyadssPosted on 2004-06-03 at 16:42:22ID: 11228325

&nbsp Just stands for an empty space that isnt ready to be coded. You dont need to make up all of this junk.

 

by: hendridmPosted on 2004-06-04 at 10:42:09ID: 11234956

fibo: <nobr>word1 word2 word3</nobr> will ensure the words are on the same line as well, and is a little less messy.

 

by: fiboPosted on 2004-06-06 at 14:14:02ID: 11245057

hendridm: thx for the tip!

 

by: GonavitchPosted on 2004-06-10 at 08:46:16ID: 11280583

It's a non-break space as a special symbol. Used in HTML. I have no idea what is does though because I don't use special symbols.

 

by: Pureluck82Posted on 2004-06-22 at 13:00:10ID: 11373290

&nbsp can be used for many things.

With plain html, if you type text, a single space would be recognized and displayed by the browser. If you put multiple spaces between characters, only one space would show between the text in the browser window.

&nbsp allows multiple spaces to show in the browser window. Some people inappropriately use &nbsp for single spaces instead of just using a space.

It is also used in cells of tables to force the cell to show if no other content is in the cell. If you have a cell with nothing inside it, some browsers have a tendency not to show the cell at all.

&nbsp does not guarantee that the text will not wrap.

Hope this helps.

 

by: m8rixPosted on 2004-06-27 at 14:54:24ID: 11411797

that's funny, was there something wrong with my answer? I think not, I was the first to give the correct definition being "Non-breakable space"

 

by: blinkomaniaPosted on 2004-11-28 at 05:46:47ID: 12690029

No Break SPace <-- Correct Name :p...
&nbsp

The & sign refers to a special table code and the nbsp is the code reference.

It will then enter a white space.

 

by: GonavitchPosted on 2004-11-28 at 09:44:35ID: 12690750

Yes, I couldn't think of it. But that is correct.

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