You type a few spaces in a bio or a message, hit send, and they vanish. That is not a bug in your phone. Most apps collapse repeated spaces and trim empty lines, because they treat whitespace as formatting, not content. The workaround people use is invisible text, characters that look like nothing but count as something. Paste those into a bio or a message and the gap survives, because the app sees real characters instead of empty space. It is handy for spacing out a bio, stacking lines in a caption, or sending a blank message that still delivers. If you need a quick set of invisible characters, this blank text page makes them in one tap, with no app to install and nothing to sign up for.
General
Why your blank spaces disappear, and how to send them anyway
dev.to WebDev0 views
Source:https://dev.to/lindaeckles/why-your-blank-spaces-disappear-and-how-to-send-them-anyway-14hn
PreviousDesigning Spatial Synergies for a 4x4 Auto-BattlerNextUnderstanding Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): A Practical Case Study of Amazon EC2
Related posts
Vellinko – Sign PDFs in the browser without uploading them
0Hacker News New
Show HN: Vivio House, an interactive 3D headquarters
0Hacker News New
Pushover – Simple Notifications
0Hacker News New
The Gift of It's Your Problem Now (2021)
0Hacker News New
Implied News: News X Prediction Markets
0Hacker News New
Show HN: OpenDocBot - bring your own model to Word, Excel and PowerPoint
0Hacker News New