Can anyone tell me what nbsp stands for? It shows up on my friends email. I have no clue what it is.?

Question

Can anyone tell me what nbsp stands for? It shows up on my friends email. I have no clue what it is.?

Answer 1

Nbsp stands for Non-breaking Space. When you code HTML (the language of Internet Explorer), you can put as many spaces into a program as you want, but if you want more than one to show up, you must either add the <pre> tag to tell it to format the text as is, or "nbsp;" to let it know that you want another space there.

You're probably only seeing it because there was some error with the display.

Answer 2

Non-breaking space.  It's probably an HTML error.  NBSP is used when you don't want the browser to split two words at the end of a line.

Answer 3

It's html for a space.

Answer 4

The question is more why nbsp; is there rather than what it is.  It has suddenly started showing up in e-mail sent to a Yahoo Group from a YahooMail account.  It makes reading postings difficult and irritates other users.  It seems to have started about a month ago.  I suspected it was a problem either with Internet Explorer or Yahoo Groups, but now it is starting to show up in e-mails sent to other users.  It appears to affect Web-based e-mail engines.  The fact that it affects only some e-mails and only some users and does not happen predictably is driving some users nuts at this point.

Answer 5

actually there is nothing like nbsp, the actual thing is  

In HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Language ) or .html pages....

if we want to put a space between two character or word or anywhere then we can put it as  

And In your friend's email i think & was missed for typing, that's why it shows nbsp in place of SPACE.