A template to produce one or more non-breaking spaces (  character entities), or another type of spaces.

Usage

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Syntax

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{{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

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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

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Name
(alias)
Instance Example code and ... Using {{spaces}} Output Output {{spaces}}
none Text<ref>...</ref>
''Text''<ref>...</ref>
Text[1]
Text[2]
Hair
(Very thin)
Text{{hair space}}<ref>...</ref>
''Text''{{hair space}}<ref>...</ref>
Text{{spaces|hair}}<ref>...</ref> Text [1]
Text[2]
Text[1]
Text[2]
2-pixel Text{{px2}}<ref>...</ref>
''Text''{{px2}}<ref>...</ref>
Text[1]
Text[2]
Narrow no-break Text{{narrow no-break space}}<ref>...</ref>
''Text''{{narrow no-break space}}<ref>...</ref>
Text [1]
Text[2]
Thin Text{{thin space}}<ref>...</ref>
''Text''{{thin space}}<ref>...</ref>
Text{{spaces|thin}}<ref>...</ref> Text[1]
Text[2]
Text[1]
Text[2]
Standard[a]   Text&nbsp;<ref>...</ref>
''Text''&nbsp;<ref>...</ref>
Text{{spaces}}<ref>...</ref> Text [1] Text [1]
Text [2]
En 1&ensp;3 1{{spaces|en}}3 1 3 13
Figure 123<br/>1{{figure space}}3 123<br/>1{{spaces|fig}}3 123
13
123
13
Em 1&emsp;3 1{{spaces|em}}3 1 3 13
  1. ^ Provided here by a non-breaking space (&nbsp;).


Template data

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Spaces in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Spaces

Inserts one or more non-breaking spaces

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Quantity1

How many non-breaking spaces to insert

Default
1
Numberoptional
Type2

Non-default types (in decreasing order of width): em, fig, en, thin, hair

Suggested values
em fig en nbsp thin hair
Default
&nbsp;
Stringoptional

See also

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