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However, using a non-breaking space can lead to uneven justified text and additional unwanted spaces or line breaks in the text in certain programs. [8] Alternatively, sentence spacing can be controlled in HTML by separating every sentence into a separate element (e.g., a span), and using CSS to finely control sentence spacing. [9]
By the 1960s, electronic phototypesetting systems ignored runs of white space in text. [7] This was also true for the World Wide Web, as HTML normally ignores additional spacing, [27] [28] although in 2011 the CSS 2.1 standard officially added an option that can preserve additional spaces. [29]
Double spaces have been forced in the HTML, and as a result, the type on the page, viewed as a whole, is "mottled" with white space. A page designer generally finds such holes in the text to be unattractive. Single-spaced text fills the text areas with a more pleasing uniform "tone." Bustter 15:45, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
A second common application of non-breaking spaces is in plain text file formats such as SGML, HTML, TeX and LaTeX, whose rendering engines are programmed to treat sequences of whitespace characters (space, newline, tab, form feed, etc.) as if they were a single character (but this behavior can be overridden).
Whitespace cannot easily be avoided when a page with little text, often a stub, contains an infobox or similar vertical template that is quite tall along with a navbox or similar horizontal template at the bottom, and the amount of text on the page takes up far less space than the template to the left. Even without a horizontal template, there ...
A numeric value is represented as a sequence of space and tab characters that represent 0 and 1 respectively and terminated by a linefeed. The first character represents the sign of the value – space for positive and tab for negative. Subsequent characters before the terminator represent the binary digits of a value. For example:
In computer programming, indentation style is a convention, a.k.a. style, governing the indentation of blocks of source code.An indentation style generally involves consistent width of whitespace (indentation size) before each line of a block, so that the lines of code appear to be related, and dictates whether to use space or tab characters for the indentation whitespace.
var x1 = 0; // A global variable, because it is not in any function let x2 = 0; // Also global, this time because it is not in any block function f {var z = 'foxes', r = 'birds'; // 2 local variables m = 'fish'; // global, because it wasn't declared anywhere before function child {var r = 'monkeys'; // This variable is local and does not affect the "birds" r of the parent function. z ...