The regular space is the character your space bar produces. It is the most common character in written text after the letters themselves, and it is also the one most likely to be stripped when you try to use it as blank text.
Click the button above to copy Space, then paste it wherever you need it. Nothing will appear on your clipboard preview - that is expected, because the character is blank.
| Unicode code point | U+0020 |
|---|---|
| Character name | Space |
| Unicode category | Zs (Space Separator) |
| Rendered width | Font-dependent, typically about 1/4 em |
| Line breaking | Breaking - a line can wrap here |
| Collapses in HTML | Yes |
| Survives trim() | No - it is stripped |
| HTML entity | |
| JavaScript escape | ' ' |
| CSS escape | \0020 |
Need these values in another format? The HTML space characters converter turns any Unicode whitespace character into HTML entities, JavaScript escapes and CSS escapes.
U+0020 SPACE is the ASCII space: the separator between words in almost every writing system that uses the Latin alphabet. Its width is not fixed by Unicode. Each font decides how wide its space glyph is, which is why the same sentence has slightly different spacing in different typefaces, and why justified text can stretch spaces without stretching anything else.
For blank-text purposes this is the character that almost never works. HTML collapses any run of regular spaces down to a single space, and virtually every form validator, username field and messaging app calls trim() on your input before checking whether it is empty. A message of nothing but regular spaces is treated as an empty message and rejected.
The same character can be preserved in one place and silently removed in another. Here is what actually happens to Space in the three contexts that matter most.
Collapses. Any number of consecutive regular spaces renders as one space unless you use white-space: pre or the <pre> element.
Stripped. Standard trim() removes leading and trailing regular spaces, so a spaces-only value counts as blank and fails required-field checks.
Trimmed by WhatsApp, Instagram, Discord and essentially every mainstream platform. This is the character that fails, and the reason the other characters on this site exist.
Not sure what is in a string you already have? Paste it into the invisible character detector to see every hidden character with its code point, or use remove invisible characters to strip them out.
Regular writing. If you landed here looking for a blank space you can paste into a message or a username, this is the wrong character - it gets trimmed. Try Hangul Filler instead.
If what you actually need is text that looks completely empty - a blank WhatsApp message, an empty Instagram highlight name, a blank comment or a Free Fire name space - then Hangul Filler is the character to use, because it is not classified as whitespace and survives the trimming that removes Space.
Different apps prefer different Unicode characters. Start with these combinations.
Best first choice: Hangul Filler (U+3164). Alternatives: Zero Width Space and No-Break Space.
Best first choice: Hangul Filler. Alternative for tighter formatting: Zero Width Space.
Start with Hangul Filler. If the game rejects it, try Space or No-Break Space.
Use No-Break Space for preventing line breaks, EN Space and EM Space for wider spacing, and Thin Space or Hair Space for finer adjustments. For code-ready values and conversion, see HTML Space Characters.
Width is the fastest way to choose between these characters. If Space is not right for your use case, one of these probably is.
| Character | Unicode | Width |
|---|---|---|
| No-Break Space | U+00A0 | Same width as a regular space in the current font |
| Zero Width Space | U+200B | Zero - it occupies no horizontal space at all |
| EN Space | U+2002 | Exactly 1/2 em - half the current font size |
| EM Space | U+2003 | Exactly 1 em - equal to the current font size |
| Three-Per-Em Space | U+2004 | Exactly 1/3 em |
| Four-Per-Em Space | U+2005 | Exactly 1/4 em |
| Six-Per-Em Space | U+2006 | Exactly 1/6 em |
| Figure Space | U+2007 | Exactly the width of a digit in the current font |
| Punctuation Space | U+2008 | Exactly the width of a period in the current font |
| Thin Space | U+2009 | About 1/5 em, though the exact width is left to the font |
See all 18 Unicode space and invisible characters compared →
Because the app trimmed it. Nearly every input field removes leading and trailing regular spaces before saving, so a value made only of U+0020 is stored as an empty string and rejected. An invisible character that is not classified as whitespace, such as Hangul Filler, survives that trimming.
It varies by font. There is no fixed width in the Unicode standard - each typeface defines its own space glyph, usually somewhere around a quarter of an em. If you need a guaranteed width, use a fixed-width space such as EN Space or EM Space.
HTML's default whitespace handling collapses runs of spaces, tabs and newlines into a single space. To keep them, use a No-Break Space, set the CSS property white-space to pre or pre-wrap, or put the text inside a pre element.
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