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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by Mizza on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:15PM (#7301042)
Oh god. I still use   for spacing things. Like, all the time.

I'm a terrible person.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by conradfr on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @06:02PM (#7301345)
I have the habit to use it to separate a text from a image, form inputs etc.
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by jamesbritt on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @06:12PM (#7301405)
For some reason I have &#
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by pigDisgusting on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @06:23PM (#7301475)
...do you mean   ???

That's the numeric entity for a non-breakng space.   is the named entity for the same character.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by jamesbritt on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:08PM (#7301721)
Yes!

Not burned-in: Escaping stuff on HN. :)

Anyways, I don't recall the details, but there's was a browser (I think) that didn't recognize the named entity so I had to use the numerical form. And after that I used that form all the time when I needed the forced spacing.

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