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A template used to insert one or more [[non-breaking space]]s (<code>&amp;nbsp;</code>) to prevent automatic line breaks at specific points in the text. This is useful for keeping elements such as numbers and units together.
A template to produce one or more [[non-breaking space]]s (<code>&amp;nbsp;</code> character entities), or another type of spaces.

== Usage ==
=== Syntax ===
{{larger|<code><nowiki>{{spaces|</nowiki>''N''{{!}}''type''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>}} produces ''N'' consecutive non-breaking spaces (where ''N'' is a [[Integer|whole number]] larger than zero) of the type specified by the second parameter (which are ordered by decreasing space width): <code>em</code>, <code>fig</code>, <code>en</code>, <code>thin</code>, <code>hair</code>. If type is not specified, ''N'' non-breaking spaces (<syntaxhighlight inline lang=xml>&nbsp;</syntaxhighlight>) are produced. A non-breaking space has the same width as a standard space, whose width is between the width of <code>en</code> and <code>thin</code>.

{{larger|<code><nowiki>{{spaces|</nowiki>''type''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>}} produces a single non-breaking space of the type indicated.

=== Controlling line-breaking in infoboxes ===
This template, usually as its alias {{tlx|nbsp}}, may be used with {{tlx|wbr}} and {{tlx|nowrap}} to control line-breaking in bulletless lists in infoboxes, to prevent wrapped long entries from being confused with multiple entries. See [[Template:Wbr/doc#Controlling line-breaking in infoboxes]] for details.

==Comparisons==
{{Space comparison}}

== Template data ==
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<templatedata>
{
	"description": "Inserts one or more non-breaking spaces",
	"params": {
		"1": {
			"label": "Quantity",
			"description": "How many non-breaking spaces to insert",
			"type": "number",
			"default": "1"
		},
		"2": {
			"label": "Type",
			"description": "Non-default types (in decreasing order of width): em, fig, en, thin, hair",
			"type": "string",
			"default": "&nbsp;",
			"suggestedvalues": [
				"em",
				"fig",
				"en",
				"nbsp",
				"thin",
				"hair"
			]
		}
	}
}
</templatedata>

== See also ==
* [[Template:Non breaking hyphen]]
* [[Help:Advanced text formatting]]
* {{tl|0}} to add invisible characters
* {{tl|block indent}} to indent an entire block of content, similar to a [[Template:Quote|block quotation]] (uses {{tag|div|o}} and CSS margins)
* {{tlg|nowrap|item|italic=on}} to stop the linewrapping of any part of {{var|item}}
{{Inline spacing templates}}

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