If you use spans like this, you have to think aboutĬut-and-paste. There's a gotcha with this method, which is similar to the problems of theįirst method. Use CSS to control the separation between your sentence spans. Span that tells us it is a sentence span. "what next, range-kerning?" Nowadays that doesn't seem so unlikely.īut, we can do this using the SPAN tag, and adding a class for that particular The subject of spaces between sentences was raised, someone quipped The reason is that HTML was never supposed to be that complicated. In my opinion (and having participated in the design at the time) Unfortunately, HTML does not have any standard tags that are used to mark The spacing between your sentences in a much more proper and modern way,Īnd you can be somewhat precise about it (or even very precise, with some The correct way to do this in HTML is to put in a tag that tells you whatĮlements of your content are sentences. Isn't the fully modern CSS approach that I think is what we should be doing. Without inserting extra space at the beginning of the line. Work correctly in Safari, breaking lines even if there are multiple spaces, Very often, it may not function as expected.
This is probably a good approach, but since I haven't seen it recommended The amount of space, they will not affect line wrapping ( if theīrowser is properly implemented which I'm not going to guarantee), andĬut-and-paste will cut the actual number of spaces (including both spaceĬharacters and any of the space above entities) you actually use. The advantage of these spaces is that you have some finer grain control over In other words, there's about a 50% chance that it will be one pixel narrower. This is &thinsp (Note that on my browser, this looks almost the same as a regular space but upon closer inspection appears to be 1/2 pixel narrower.In your browser, in whatever font you happen to be using. Here are samples of all of the spaces, so you can see how they render &thinsp-this will be a narrow space, even more narrow than a regular space.&ensp-the en space this should be a somewhat wide space, roughly two regular spaces.
This should be a very wide space, typically as much as four real spaces. You'll probably end up with two spaces between sentences. Method is that when you cut and paste text out of a web browser window, And there is a way to do that more or less,īut first I'll say that the one advantage of using the It would be better to adjust sentence spacing to whateverĪmount of space we desire. Of times we pressed the space bar (or in computer terms, the number of spaceĬharacters). Typewriters put us in a position to count the space in terms of the number Space as they desired between sentences (well, depending on the width of theīlank sorts (printing blocks) they had on hand).
Hand-set type always allowed printers to put in as much This method, you have to make sure the regular space comes second (althoughĮven this is a problem if you are using justified text).Īnother problem is that adding an extra space is a club, where you might Space at the beginning of the line after it wraps. Regular space first and then the you can end up with a This is sort of ok if you use one regular space and one īecause it can still wrap text on the regular space. So the first problem is that HTML can not wrap your text where that space is. The non-collapsing aspect is a side-effect of the non-breaking feature. This is used to insure that HTML doesn't wrap your lines at that particular
First of all, 'nbsp' is actually an abbreviation of 'non-breaking space'. Work, but it suffers from a few drawbacks (and at least one advantage). Recommend that if you want to do this, the proper way is to use to create an extra space that will not be collapsed. If you poke around on the web on this subject, you'll probably see many people Adding extra space between sentences isĪ kind of layout, and that's supposed to be the work of the tags themselves. Part that isn't tags) the only purpose a space has is to HTMLĬollapses repeated spaces, because within the content portion of HTML (the This is true no matter how many spaces you type. Sentences the same size as spaces between words. The lazy choice is to add no extra space. If anything, the record shows that wider spacings were common prior to the automation of the printing process.)įor the record, I am not a mandatory spacing person. ( Note that the spacing terminology above is my own, and completely subjective. Updated April 2012 (switch from padding-right to word-spacing)Ĭlick to select your desired sentence spacing:
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