Breaking space (Opposite of non-breaking space)

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Sander Koedood picture Sander Koedood · Jul 29, 2016 · Viewed 28.6k times · Source

While solving a little bug in a website caused by a non-breaking space (   ) I was wondering if there's an opposite.

Is there a HTML-code for a breaking space, and if so, what is it?

I saw mention in this question about a zero-width space ( ​ ), but that won't give any width (obviously).

Does a HTML-entity exist for a regular space?

Answer

Bert picture Bert · Jul 29, 2016

  is a regular space (by its numeric ascii value).

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