HTML decimal character rendering: Difference between revisions

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The characters 0009 (tab), 0010 (linefeed), and 0013 (carriage return) are allowed in HTML documents, but, along with 0032 (space) are all considered "[[whitespace (computer science)|whitespace]]"[http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.1]. The "form feed" control character, which would be at 0012, is not allowed in HTML documents, but is also mentioned as being one of the "white space" characters &mdash; perhaps an oversight in the specifications. In HTML, most consecutive occurrences of white space characters, except in a <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code> block, are interpreted as comprising a single "word separator" for rendering purposes. A word separator is typically rendered a single en-width space in European languages, but not in others.

==See also==

*[[List of HTML decimal character references]]

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