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Re:Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in... by joegahona on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:39PM (#26505313)
"White space" is two words, not one.
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Re:Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in... by tshaddox on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:22PM (#26505772)
In computing it is widely used as a single word "whitespace." For example:

- The XML W3C Rec: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/

- The HTTP 1.0 RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945

However, there are exception. The Unicode character database has a property called "White_Space" which implies it is two words: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#White_Space

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Re:Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in... by nanis on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:19PM (#26506441)
> a property called "White_Space" which implies it is two words

<tongue-in-cheek> Except that `_` is a "word" character by default. </tongue-in-cheek>

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Re:Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in... by tobr on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:22PM (#26505769)
As far as I can tell, both are common, but “white space” is more common as a synonym to negative space, and “whitespace” is more common to refer to the characters. If so, the “white-space” property controls whitespace, not white space.
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Re:Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in... by scubbo on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:56PM (#26506200)
"White" and "space" are two words, and "Whitespace" is one word.
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