Template:Spaces/doc

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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.

{{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 for details.

Template data

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Inserts one or more non-breaking spaces

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Quantity	`1`	How many non-breaking spaces to insert Default 1	Number	optional
Type	`2`	Non-default types (in decreasing order of width): em, fig, en, thin, hair Default	String	optional

v t e Inline spacing templates
Non-breaking space characters	{{figure space}} {{hair space}} {{narrow no-break space}} {{nb5}} {{nb10}} {{ns}} {{quad}} {{spaces}} {{thin space}} {{zero width joiner}}
Breaking space characters	{{sp}} {{zero width space}}
Non-character spaces	{{gaps}} {{in5}} {{indent}} {{pad}} {{px2}} {{vpad}}