&Nbsp Meaning & nbsp ; stands for "non-breaking space" 🤯

I 100% always thought of this as gobbledygook.

More information...

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/n/nbsp.htm

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[Ryan Smith]

The original HTML layout syntax
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[George Jempty]

You forgot ·

[Thomas H Jones II]

Always more a fan of •.

[Michael Großklaus]

That's what I used to do as well when starting with web development... I was typing every single character by hand though, because I didn't know shortcuts, not even copy&paste.

[edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y]

Non-breaking doesn't necessarily mean non-collapsing. Though most renderers will not collapse those, I do believe it'd be okay by unicode.

[Jason C. McDonald]

Meanwhile, & is for ampersand, a.k.a. &

[dev-head]

Furthermore, a.k.a; is for "Also Known As"... i.e. another name.

[Silvestar Bistrović]

A bit furthermore, i.e. stands for id est and means roughly "that is".

[George Jempty]

The way I remember the difference between i.e. and e.g. is that, people think i.e. means "in/for example" but actually that's e.g. -- i.e. is "specifically"

[Thomas H Jones II]

Just never, never, never say "ect.". Makes me twitch every time I see it in print. Even worse when I see someone I know is an experienced UNIX/Linux user make that botch.

[Ken Bellows]

@GeorgeJempty I always thought of "i.e." as "in essence"

[Ben Sinclair]

Additionalmost, i.e. is for "id est", a Latin browser most people try to forget.

[Lautaro Lobo]

I always thought that i.e. was In Example, and e.g. Example Given...

[SavagePixie]

Actually, e.g. stands for exempli gratia in Latin, which means "for the sake of example".

[Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli]

And & is short for et c.

[Jason C. McDonald]

I've got a "smart aleck of the day" award around here somewhere for you...... :P

[Thomas H Jones II]

What do I get for "anti-virgule"?

[Adam Crockett 🌀]

Is that a pointer in this notation?

[Bryan Robinson]

I love that it's non-breaking. It's a super power. I use it to attach a right angle quote to the end of a link's text to make sure it wraps with the last word:

<a>Some amount of text here&nbsp;&raquo;</a>

That will keep "here" and the arrows together. It'll keep you from getting a random 1 line of text and 1 line with just >>

[Ben Lovy]

It's still "nubsip" in my head. Sometimes, "nubusp".

[Isaac Lyman]

My internal voice always says "noobspace." I don't know why.

[Mr F.]

nbsp; = never boil smelly potatoes;

[Ben Halpern]

You can't tell me what to do

[Mr F.]

<marquee><font size="3" color="red"><big>nbsp;nbsp; stop me! nbsp;nbsp;</big></font></marquee>

[Ben Halpern]

😂

[Robin Kretzschmar]

Feeling kind of dump but my brain associated it with "no blank space" during my training time back then even though I knew it produced a blank space and ever since was wired to that term.
Should get used to the real meaning 😂

[Phil Nash]

So many of these things we rarely question!

Sharing the knowledge is > keeping it to yourself.

[Thomas H Jones II]

Been a user of   for a loooong time. A number of entities and ALT-key glyphs. Has confused many a co-worker, over the years, that I so frequently type characters from my number key pad (and that I've got so many memorized).

[leob]

Yep, and there's also &sp; which is a "breaking space".

[Luke Garrigan]

I knew this 💪 #10xdev