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by Brian Sinclair <sinclair(at)inficad.com>

Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 1997 17:56:11 -0700
To:	Paul Varese <paul(at)MirrorMedia.com>, hwg-theory(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	mirrormedia
	todo: View Thread, Original

Actually, ASCII characters such as &nbsp; are valid in the sense that they
pass most validation programs.  I have used it with Netscape 2-4, IE 3 and
4 (PC) and Lynx and Mosaic (UNIX) and had no problems.

Brian Sinclair
Assistant Webmaster
Self-Help & Psychology Magazine
http://www.cybertowers.com/selfhelp/
ICQ: 4167685
Member HTML Writers Guild, International Webmasters Association, Webmasters
Guild

At 02:35 PM 12/28/97 -0800, Paul Varese wrote:
>I have already asked this question, but got no response.
>
>Perhaps nobody knows????
>
>Is &nbsp; recognized by all browsers and systems???
>Don't tell me that it is "not correct HTML" because it
>is not HTML, it is a special ASCII character. As long
>as it is equally recognized by all systems and browsers,
>we should be able to use it as a spacer/indent  element.
>I use it for paragraph indents and tested it with Nav 3,
>Nav4, IE3, and IE4 on both Mac and PC platforms.
>It always seems to work for me.
>
>I have it embedded on a LOT of pages, so I would really
>like to know if I should not be using it.
>
>Thanks for sharing : )
>
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