Template:Nowrap/doc

stops wrapping of specific text. It prevents word wraps (line breaks) within text or inside a link which contains spaces, hyphens ("-"), or, in some browsers, parentheses. The size of the nowrapped text becomes the minimum width of that paragraph. Before you use this template you might want to read up on Line-break handling.

Usage


The template names nobr and nobreak are redirects that may be used instead of "".

Controlling line-breaking in infoboxes
This template may be used with and  to control line-breaking in bulletless lists in infoboxes, to prevent wrapped long entries from being confused with multiple entries. See Template:Wbr/doc for details.

Handling equal-sign or bar
Templates have problems with parameter data that contains equal-signs " " or vertical bars " " (pipes). Note that this does not apply if the equal-sign " " or vertical bar " " is inside a wikilink or another template. In the case that there is a bare equal-sign " " or vertical bar " ", consider using nowrap begin + nowrap end instead. However, there are also other workarounds:

For text that includes an equal-sign "=", precede the text with, use a triple-brace unnamed parameter  , or the   template. For example: , or

which all render as this:
 * 2 + 2 = 4.

For text that includes a vertical bar "|", escape the bar(s) with " " or " " or " ". For instance, put two bars "|6|" like this:
 * or    or

Which renders this:
 * &#124;6&#124; < 7

Technical details
The actual code that does the job is this HTML span tag that applies a class to the text inside the template:


 * This text will not wrap

The class  receives the CSS property white-space: nowrap; in MediaWiki:Common.css.

Spaces at the beginning or end of the text will fall outside the no-wrap tag in the rendered text due to Wikimedia rendering mechanisms.

The templates nobr and nobreak redirect here.