Megan — Mon, 28 May 2007 13:15:30 +0000

That's a good idea, David! I'll have to try that sometime.

webwiz — Sat, 26 May 2007 19:17:56 +0000

Thanks for the test page, Megan.

Checking on Win xp pro, your page shows:

Letter-spacing works in IE 5.01 and up; Firefox 2, Opera 9, Netscape 7.2, and Moz 1.7.
Word-spacing works in the above except for IE 5.01 and IE 5.5.

Incidentally, I sometimes use a negative letter-spacing for headings. Depending on the font, it can give a nice effect. Letter-spacing: -1px; is usually enough.

Cordially, David.

demonhale — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:18:43 +0000

Well I also mean supported in browsers as far as I remember, as in I use it all the time... I think my previous post wasn't clear enough... sorry bout that... The link was suppose to clarify you with it's property...

Megan — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:22:48 +0000

Well surprise surpirse, they actually do work! And even in IE 6!

Megan — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:51:41 +0000

No, I mean does it actually work in web browsers? supported != part of the w3c spec. I know it's in the spec. Letter-spacing is in there too but isn't supported by browsers

demonhale — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:22:52 +0000

It is supported Meg, the same properties as letter-spacing which I seem to use a lot lately... it's at Topic 16.4 here http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html

Megan — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:15:49 +0000

Why are you trying to insert an extra space? All of the above answers are good ones, but I'm thinking from a semantic perspective. What's the purpose of the nbsp? I don't really think there are a lot of reasons for using nbsp's but we might be able to think of some. If it's a presentational issue then it should be handled using CSS. If it's because you were taught to type with two spaces after a period, then you should try to unlearn that habit (it's a hold over from old typewriters and isn't necessary anymore).

David - does word-spacing actually work? I'm going to have to try that out... (I mean, is it supported by browsers)

Re: spacing text

webwiz — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:14:58 +0000

Multiple spaces, line-ends, and tabs normally collapse to a single space in HTML. You can prevent that by using the PRE element, or by declaring "white-space: pre;" in CSS.

If you just want to increase word spacing in a group of words, use the "word-spacing" property in CSS for better control of the amount of space added.

Cordially, David

brady.k — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:05:25 +0000

When you want a space you can do this:

<p>Here's some text...and some more.  But NOW here's two&nbsp;&nbsp; spaces!</p>

The character is literally a space. Any number you want, just use the as a spacebar-hit.

Greg K — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:48:43 +0000

What you need is a "Non-Breaking Space", in actual HTML code, it is represented by In a WYSIWYG editor like dreamweaver, there is usually a key combination that will insert one for you, I think it is CTRL-SPACE.

-Greg