Template:Zero width joiner

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The template {{zero width joiner}} inserts the code <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">‍</syntaxhighlight>, producing a Template:Unichar 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}} <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1"> </syntaxhighlight> 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
Template:Fake citation needed

Inserting {{zero width joiner}} between the text and the tag produces instead:

A zero width joiner‍Template:Fake 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This template used to employ code of the older "Zero-width non-breaking space" that is now outdated, as of Unicode 3.2.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 <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">‍</syntaxhighlight> in wikimarkup.

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Zero width joiner

Inserts a zero-width joiner character

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

See also

• {{Non breaking hyphen}}
• {{Soft hyphen}}
• {{Zwnj}} – zero width non-joiner, allows two pieces of text to wrap when they otherwise wouldn't