&nbsp -Reply

[Bonnie Osborn Briggs]

It means that you can put additional hard-coded spaces between two
entities.  HTML doesn't recognize the spacebar like word processors do.
So if you want three spaces between two items you have to insert the
code &nbsp.

Bonnie Briggs
The University of Memphis

Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>
> But what does _that_ mean?
>
> At 10:18 AM 6/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >"&nbsp" is a character entity in HTML for a "nonbreaking space."
> >
> >Elizabeth Gregory
> >
> >
> >>>> Dennis Baron <debaron at NTX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU> - 6/1/99 9:44 AM >>>
> >Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation &nbsp means in email? I've been
> >seeing it recently but I must have been absent the day it was covered in
> >class.
> >
> >Dennis
> >
> >
> >__________________________________________________
> >Dennis Baron, Head                               debaron at uiuc.edu
> >Department of English                         phone: 217-333-2390
> >University of Illinois
> >608 S. Wright St.                                      fax:217-333-4321
> >Urbana, Illinois 61801        http://www.english.uiuc.edu/baron
> >