At 08:19 PM 8/11/02 +0100, Matthew Woolcraft wrote:
What's the preferred way to include a non-breaking space in a Wikipedia article?
What's the reason for including a non-breaking space in the Wikipedia article?
That's not snideness: it's key to the answer.
In some cases, the answer is that you don't need or want one--you don't know what the viewer's browser is or how wide the window is, so there's no point trying to govern layout to that degree.
If you're doing a table, we're still sorting out table markup, but it's likely to define rows and columns, not spaces.
For a map or other illustration, there are better ways of handling graphics.
If the space is part of a name, you can either accept that the linebreak may occur between "van" and "Gogh" in "Vincent van Gogh" (usually no big deal) or use the HTML.