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The template {{Zero width joiner}} inserts the code
‍
, producing a U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER (‍) in the rendered wiki-page. This invisibly 'sews together' two words as if they were a single word, preventing their separation at line breaks. It acts as a {{no-break space}}
except is immaterial and does not display on the page.
Usage
This template can be used, for example, to prevent text to wrap as in:
- something that needs a citation
[citation needed]
Inserting {{zero width joiner}} between the text and the tag produces instead:
- A zero width joiner[citation needed]
History
This template used to employ code of the older "Zero-width non-breaking space" that is now outdated, as of Unicode 3.2. Though Unicode suggests a Word Joiner instead, zero-width joiner does practically the same thing and better matches the already-existing {{Zwnj}}. An alternative is to simply use the HTML code
‍
in wikimarkup.
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.
Zero width joiner
Inserts a zero-width joiner character
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |||
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See also
- {{Non breaking hyphen}}
- {{Soft hyphen}}
- {{Zwnj}} – zero width non-joiner, allows two pieces of text to wrap when they otherwise wouldn't