No-Break Space
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0160 on the numeric keypad to insert no-break space.
- Alt code
- Alt+0160
- HTML entity
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- Unicode
- U+00A0
About this symbol
The no-break space looks like an ordinary space but stops a line breaking at that point, keeping together things that belong together, such as 10 km, Henry VIII or the parts of a phone number. On Windows it is Alt+0160.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- NO-BREAK SPACE
- Type
- Space
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Commonly abbreviated as NBSP
- Should be the same width as the space 0020
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.