Zero Width Space

Zero width space zwsp space zero width.

Zero width space. Search for zero and double click the invisible character on row 4 column 1 to insert a zws. The zero width space is unicode character u 200b. On linux you apparently can type ctrl shift u 8203. Html preprocessors can make writing html more powerful or convenient.

There are 5 zwsp entities namely zero width space zero width non joiner zero width joiner zero width no break space and ０ full width digit zero. On a mac you need character viewer. For instance markdown is designed to be easier to write and read for text documents and you could write a loop in pug. A copy and paste non printing characters collection for easy access.

It is sometimes abbreviated as zwsp. It s remarkably hard to type. A zero width space is for the most part invisible. U 200a hair space u 200c zero width non joiner.

It has no width but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification. This code point first appeared in version 1 1 of the unicode standard and belongs to the general punctuation block which goes from 0x2000 to 0x206f. Useful maybe but the ability to use an invisible character with no width has serious cyber security implications. Just click on a non printing character to copy it to the clipboard and paste it anywhere.

You can safely add this character in your html code with the entity. It lets your browser know when it s okay to break a word onto a new line without hyphenating it. The zero width space abbreviated zwsp is a non printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate word boundaries to text processing systems when using scripts that do not use explicit spacing or after characters such as the slash that are not followed by a visible space but after which there may nevertheless be a line break. Commonly abbreviated zwsp this character is intended for invisible word separation and for line break control.

It s a space that you can put into word and other programs to divide up a long line of text without breaking it up visually. Unicode 1 1 0 june 1993. Zero width space zwsp character zero width joiner zwj character zero width non joiner zwnj character left to right mark ltr mark lrm right to left mark rtl mark rlm.