How to add   using d3.js selection.text() method

Question

selection.text(' ') appears to convert the special characters so it renders the actual text, rather than a space like I want. Is there a way to prevent the text() method on selections from doing this escaping for me? For context, this is a table cell that is empty for some elements in the selection, and I need the space in there so that the cells render properly.

Answer 1

Use a JavaScript Unicode escape rather than an HTML entity.   in HTML denotes the Unicode character U+00A0 so

selection.text('\u00A0')

should do what you want.