Ben Halpern

Posted on Jan 14, 2020

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

#html #todayilearned

I 100% always thought of this as gobbledygook.

More information...

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

Top comments (39)

Ryan Smith • Jan 14 '20 • Edited

The original HTML layout syntax
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George Jempty • Jan 14 '20 • Edited

You forgot ·

Thomas H Jones II • Jan 14 '20

Always more a fan of •.

Michael Großklaus • Jan 15 '20

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 • Jan 15 '20

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 • Jan 14 '20

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

dev-head • Jan 14 '20

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

Silvestar Bistrović • Jan 14 '20 • Edited

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

George Jempty • Jan 14 '20

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 • Jan 14 '20

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 • Jan 15 '20

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

Ben Sinclair • Jan 14 '20 • Edited

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

Lautaro Lobo • Jan 15 '20

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

SavagePixie • Jan 15 '20

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

Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli • Jan 22 '20

And & is short for et c.

Jason C. McDonald • Jan 14 '20

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

Thomas H Jones II • Jan 14 '20

What do I get for "anti-virgule"?

Adam Crockett 🌀 • Jan 14 '20

Is that a pointer in this notation?

Bryan Robinson • Jan 14 '20 • Edited

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 »</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 • Jan 14 '20

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

Isaac Lyman • Jan 15 '20

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

Mr F. • Jan 14 '20

nbsp; = never boil smelly potatoes;

Ben Halpern • Jan 14 '20

You can't tell me what to do

Mr F. • Jan 14 '20 • Edited

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

Ben Halpern • Jan 14 '20

😂

Robin Kretzschmar • Jan 14 '20

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 • Jan 14 '20

So many of these things we rarely question!

Sharing the knowledge is > keeping it to yourself.

Thomas H Jones II • Jan 14 '20

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).