What is "blank-space"

Blank spaces, or whitespace, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs and new lines that create white space between the text, horizontally or vertically.

Blank space is not represented by a visual character or symbol, but in most cases occupies a space on the page.

On most keyboards, a blank space can be entered using any of the following keys::

space Enter Tab

Characters white spaces

The following characters are all set to white space:

  • U+0009 - Horizontal Tab
  • U+000A - Line Feed
  • U+000B - Vertical Tab
  • U+000C - Form Feed
  • U+000D - Carriage Return
  • U+0020 - Space
  • U+0085 - Next Line
  • U+00A0 - Non-breaking Space
  • U+1680 - Ogham Space Mark
  • U+180E - Mongolian Vowel Separator
  • U+2000 - EN Quad
  • U+2001 - IN QUAD
  • U+2002 - EN Space
  • U+2003 - IN SPACE
  • U+2004 - Three-per-EM Space
  • U+2005 - Four-per-EM Space
  • U+2006 - Six-per-EM Space
  • U+2007 - Figure Space
  • U+2008 - Punctuation Space
  • U+2009 - Thin Space
  • U+200A - Hair Space
  • U+2028 - Line Separator
  • U+2029 - Paragraph Separator
  • U+202F - Narrow Non-breaking Space
  • U+205F - Medium Mathematical Space
  • U+3000 - Ideographic Space

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