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Whitespace, or white space, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank space between text, either horizontally or vertically.

Whitespace, or white space, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank (or white, originally referring to the background color behind it) space between text, either horizontally or vertically. White space is not represented by a visual character or symbol, but in most cases does occupy space on the page.

Whitespace Characters

The following characters are all defined as being whitespace.

  • U+0009 - Horizontal Tab
  • U+000A - Line Feed
  • U+000B - Vertical Tab
  • U+000C - Form Feed
  • U+000D - Carriage Return
  • U+0020 - Space
  • U+0085 - Next Line
  • U+00A0 - Non-Breaking Space
  • U+1680 - Ogham Space Mark
  • U+180E - Mongolian Vowel Separator
  • U+2000 - EN Quad
  • U+2001 - EM Quad
  • U+2002 - EN Space
  • U+2003 - EM Space
  • U+2004 - Three-per-EM Space
  • U+2005 - Four-per-EM Space
  • U+2006 - Six-per-EM Space
  • U+2007 - Figure Space
  • U+2008 - Punctuation Space
  • U+2009 - Thin Space
  • U+200A - Hair Space
  • U+2028 - Line Separator
  • U+2029 - Paragraph Separator
  • U+202F - Narrow Non-Breaking Space
  • U+205F - Medium Mathematical Space
  • U+3000 - Ideographic Space
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Recognizing Spaces in text

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Random gap between div elements

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XDocument.Parse preserving unwanted whitespace

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How do I remove white space from right side of screen

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Random white space in body element

I've sumbled upon a problem that never occured before : A white space ( " " ) in the body element. Obviously, that little thing is screwing with the whole layout, and on top of it, it's actually dumping the head's code into the body. I.E : Instead…
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Trimming white space - front end or back end?

I'm working on re-designing a ASP.NET application that uses a pre-existing database. The back-end has a whole bunch of white spaces that were added long before I arrived, and so now its got me wondering ... Would it be better for me to trim the…
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Regular Expression Validation error does not show up on entering a whitespace

I have written a regular expression to allow maximum 3 decimal digits. The Regex is: ^\d+([.,]\d{1,3})?$ It works perfectly for correct inputs such as (100,100.22 etc) and also shows up the validation error when the user tries to input (0. or , or…
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White space above display:inline-block divs

I'm developing a website and I'm having difficulties understanding why on earth this is happening: https://i.stack.imgur.com/hxArz.png Here is my html for the content div:

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Adding Whitespace in Middle of Sentence

In HTML5, how do you skip 5 spaces in a
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TextFied Expression: keep whitespaces at the end of a textfield

I'm having a problem in a report where I have a $F{field} in which you can receive a value with whitespaces at the end. Example : "20142101          "). The textField must be horizontally align to "right". The result in my PDF is "20142101" (the…
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MongoDB querying whitespace with regex

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Trim substrings within PHP regular expressions

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How to replace all whitespace at the start of lines with a tab?

Is there a simple way to replace all whitespace at the start of lines with a single tab character? I thought of using a loop and a StringBuffer: String s = "some multi line text\n foo bar\n blah"; StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(s); for…
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Spaces in the beginning of line in Notepad++

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What is causing this random white space?

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