Hidden space - a hole in the MN time/space continuum?

[BecauseImWorthIt]

I have noticed that in long
posts, suddenly there appears a rogue space.

Is this a secret door into the wonderful world of MNHQ, or something more mundane to do with the arcane world of coding?

Look:

[b iscuit]

[bi scuit]

[bis cuit]

[bisc uit]

Hoping it's worked ....

ok I've just seen the bit about "hard" return.....ermm what's one of them?

I wrote [ grin ] (without the spaces obviously) and then pressed enter after each one.......

See - the interesting thing about your post, alfa, is that the space appears after 10 lines.

Try doing it again, but making more lines

[gri n]

(they're control+V and then "enter" ones - and now for good measure a stack of Ctrl+v in a row with no enter)

[gri n][g rin] [gri n][g rin] [gri n][g rin] [gri n]

think it is about right on the number of characters though. seems to be about 99 characters betwwen pasces.

pasces?

Is that what they are?!

oh and totally off topic - but I bought some fab new boots today - DH is fed up of hearing about them now (he's a man he doesn't get it ), guess that's why he went to bed early tonight as it's all I kept wittering on about

spaces. told you my posts were shocking

been up since 5am need to go to bed.

Go on then, ALFA - show us your boots!

there's a link to a picture of a pair the same a mine on the "baked beans for dinner" thread in chat

I tell ya I felt like Cinderella - as they were a 4 1/2 (so quite small) apparently there'd been a stead stream of people coming into the shop all day who were size 5's trying them on and finding them too small - I tried them on and they fitted like a dream - when the shop assistant said that (only the one woman that runs the place) I actually said "oh I feel like Cinderella"

You shall go to the ball!

shame they're not "ball" type boots

000000000000
000000000000
000000000000
000000000000
000000000000
000000000000
000000000000
00 0000000000
000000000000
000000000000
000000000000

111111111111
111111111111
111111111111
111111111111
111111111111
111111111111
111111111111
11 1111111111
111111111111
111111111111
111111111111
111111111111
111111111111

You see - your space is on the 8th line!

Different again...

Yoooo hoooo. Big Tech. Have they poked you, fed you raw meat and switched on the infra-red warmer yet?

Because we know how it is happening. But we need to know why.

Please do tell us it is a rift in the folds of the space-time continuum?

This does niggle doen't it. Could it be that when there is a long sequence of characters without spaces, the website coding has to impose soft returns, but when they don't need to be expressed as line breaks they show up as space characters because spacing and soft returns are somehow similarly generated?

I feel just like a medieval philosopher trying to divine God's plan in the patterns of the stars.

But when Tech/God finally answers I will be like a toddler who has said 'Mum, MUM MUM ,why, WHY WHY...' and then says 'Oh' and buggers off to put lego up his nose the minute you begin your carefully crafted answer.

I can't believe I just spent half an hour examining the underlyng HTML coding on this page in a desperate attempt to spot a web programming glitch.

Still defeated. GAAAARGH!

[obsessive emoticon]

It must be Friday. All this talk of things being inserted where they don't belong...

Great thread. Can we have it moved to Classics when BigTech has finished swearing at BIWI solved the conundrum?

Good morning all,

I have just spent some time reading this thread and laughed all the way through.

I will investigate and let you know what i find....

BIWI - I will find you.....

i have enjoyed this thread immensely. thank you all

I saw this a while ago in lists of baby names - I thought ppl were making certain names not show up in searches so they wouldn't be found by people they knew.

Turns out it's cock-up not conspiracy... or is it...