Whitespace, or white space, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank space between text, either horizontally or vertically.
Whitespace, or white space, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank (or white, originally referring to the background color behind it) space between text, either horizontally or vertically. White space is not represented by a visual character or symbol, but in most cases does occupy space on the page.
Whitespace Characters
The following characters are all defined as being whitespace.
U+0009
- Horizontal TabU+000A
- Line FeedU+000B
- Vertical TabU+000C
- Form FeedU+000D
- Carriage ReturnU+0020
- SpaceU+0085
- Next LineU+00A0
- Non-Breaking SpaceU+1680
- Ogham Space MarkU+180E
- Mongolian Vowel SeparatorU+2000
- EN QuadU+2001
- EM QuadU+2002
- EN SpaceU+2003
- EM SpaceU+2004
- Three-per-EM SpaceU+2005
- Four-per-EM SpaceU+2006
- Six-per-EM SpaceU+2007
- Figure SpaceU+2008
- Punctuation SpaceU+2009
- Thin SpaceU+200A
- Hair SpaceU+2028
- Line SeparatorU+2029
- Paragraph SeparatorU+202F
- Narrow Non-Breaking SpaceU+205F
- Medium Mathematical SpaceU+3000
- Ideographic Space