Technical information
| Symbol | | |
| Name | Zero width space | |
| Unicode number | U+200B | |
| Category | Space symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character U+200B, known as "Zero Width Space", is part of the "General Punctuation" block. This character is categorized under "Format, Other". As its name suggests, it represents an "invisible" space with zero width. It doesn't produce any visible mark and doesn't consume any horizontal space. It is used for a number of purposes, such as enabling line breaks within long words or URLs where normally there wouldn't be an appropriate place to break the line. It can also be used to separate characters that should not be connected or ligated by the rendering engine, or to insert a potential line break point in a string of non-breaking spaces. This special character plays a role in managing and controlling the appearance and layout of text, and its specific usage can depend on the context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ​ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ​ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%80%8B | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x80 0x8B | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000000:10001011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x200B | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000200B |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u200B" | |
| CSS Code | \200B | |
| JavaScript | "\u200B" | |
| Perl | \x{200B} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u200B" | |
| Python 3 | \u200B | |
| Ruby | \u{200B} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .
input-group
Font size:
12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px
CSS Property: font-weight
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>​</span>
span {
content: "\200B";
}The symbol in different fonts
-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana