&nbsp?

I’ve inherited a bunch of web code and am going bananas counting the &nbsp’s.

  1. Exactly what does &NBSP stand for?

  2. How do you do a multiple &nbsp as a single statement?

If you know the answer would kindly drop me an email?

Subject: &NBSP ???

&NBSP = html encoded Non-Breaking SPace (as I recall)

I most often use it to fill otherwise empty TD tags (they either aren’t supposed to be empty, or don’t render correctly when empty - don’t recall)

essentially, it’s a space character encoded.

Subject: &NBSP ???

Non Blank Space… that’s the area between Nokomis and Osprey… Now! Glad to see you’re still kicking and having fun with Notes.

Subject: &NBSP ???

Hi,

Non-Breaking Space

http://www.sightspecific.com/~mosh/WWW_FAQ/nbsp.html

JYR

Subject: Wouaouuuu, after M$ and Adobe, now a W3 Consortium forum ???

Subject: &NBSP ???

It’s should be   (the semicolon is important - though some browsers are forgiving).

I believe it stands for non-breaking space vs a regular space which can cause a break.

A lot of people use it to place a space in a cell or indent something.

The classic example is when you don’t want Mr. Smith to break over a line you’d use Mr. Smith or when you don’t want Jan. 12, 1999 you’d put in Jan. 12, 1999.

But as I staid you may see  

or

&nsbp;  Once upon a time there was a quick brown fox that jumped over the lazy grey dog. The fox did this day after day until…