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To add real spaces to your text, you can use the character entity. Tip: The non-breaking hyphen (‑) is used to define a hyphen character (‑) that does not break into a new line.
Use It is the entity used to represent a non-breaking space. It is essentially a standard space, the primary difference being that a browser should not break (or wrap) a line of text at the point that this occupies.
To add a space between the characters of a string, call the split() method on the string to get an array of characters, and call the join() method on the array to join the substrings with a space separator, e.g. str. split(''). join(' ') . Copied!
is a HTML entity. When doing .text(), all HTML entities are decoded to their character values.
Instead of comparing using the entity, compare using the actual raw character:
var x = td.text();
if (x == '\xa0') { // Non-breakable space is char 0xa0 (160 dec)
x = '';
}
Or you can also create the character from the character code manually it in its Javascript escaped form:
var x = td.text();
if (x == String.fromCharCode(160)) { // Non-breakable space is char 160
x = '';
}
More information about String.fromCharCode is available here:
fromCharCode - MDC Doc Center
More information about character codes for different charsets are available here:
Windows-1252 Charset
UTF-8 Charset
Remember that .text() strips out markup, thus I don't believe you're going to find in a non-markup result.
Made in to an answer....
var p = $('<p>').html(' ');
if (p.text() == String.fromCharCode(160) && p.text() == '\xA0')
alert('Character 160');
Shows an alert, as the ASCII equivalent of the markup is returned instead.
That entity is converted to the char it represents when the browser renders the page. JS (jQuery) reads the rendered page, thus it will not encounter such a text sequence. The only way it could encounter such a thing is if you're double encoding entities.
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