Template:Zero width joiner/doc

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The template {{zwj}} inserts the code , producing a U+200D zero-width joiner (HTML: &#8205; &zwj;) in the rendered wiki-page. This invisibly 'sews together' two words as if they were a single word, preventing their separation at line breaks. It acts as a {{no-break space}}   except is immaterial and does not display on the page.

Usage

This template can be used, for example, to prevent text to wrap as in:

something that needs a citation
[citation needed]

Inserting {{zwj}} between the text and the tag produces instead:

something that needs a citation[citation needed]

History

This template used to employ code of the older "Zero-width non-breaking space" that is now outdated, as of Unicode 3.2. Though Unicode suggests a Word Joiner instead, zero-width joiner does practically the same thing and better matches the already-existing {{zwnj}}. An alternative is to simply use the HTML code in wikimarkup.

See also

  • {{Zwnj}} (zero-width non-joiner, allows two pieces of text to wrap when they otherwise wouldn't)
  • {{Spaces}} (no-break spaces)
  • {{Nnbsp}} (narrow no-break space)
  • {{Nbhyph}} (no-break hyphen)
  • {{Shy}} (soft hyphen)