Template:Spaces/doc

A template used to insert one or more non-breaking spaces ( ) to prevent automatic line breaks at specific points in the text. This is useful for keeping elements such as numbers and units together. A template to produce one or more non-breaking spaces (  character entities), or another type of spaces.

Usage

Syntax

Template:Larger 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.

Template:Larger produces a single non-breaking space of the type indicated.

Controlling line-breaking in infoboxes

This template, usually as its alias, may be used with 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.

Template data

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

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Quantity	1	How many non-breaking spaces to insert Default 1	Number	optional
Type	2	Non-default types (in decreasing order of width): em, fig, en, thin, hair Suggested values em fig en nbsp thin hair Default  	String	optional