---
title: "Zero-Width Space"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/zero-width-space-ceqfvw14d
source_url: https://css-tricks.com/zero-width-space/
type: article
source: "CSS-Tricks"
published: 2021-07-02T21:32:00.245Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["tech-news", "webdev"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 10
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Zero-Width Space

**[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 2 min read · 10 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it’s not without uses. In text, maybe you’d use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are treated individually. WordPress was being weird about it and not escaping it even when in a code block.

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**@florianboubou** · 1 upvotes

> Very Nice trick !

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