Special Characters

  • Resolved dds

    (@dixonds)


    10 months ago

    Hi. I use ellipses sometimes, which is three dots with a space in between, like “. . .” but they shouldn’t break at the end of a line like “. .

    .” so I need to know how to insert nonbreaking spaces between the dots. In other words, the series of dot-space-dot-space-dot should be treated as a single word, and should have a nonbreaking space between the first dot and the preceding word as well, so it isn’t the first thing on a new line. There are lots of other useful special characters I’s like to use besides nonbreaking space. How do I insert them in my text?

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Support Rica V.

    (@ricav)

    Hi @dixonds,

    I am not sure I understood your issue correcly. Could you elaborate on the issue with some screenshots or even a screencast? https://www.loom.com/

    I’d also suggest to try out safe mode.Go to Elementor > tools , choose “enable” to the Safe Mode setting, and click save changes.

    “Safe Mode” is a safe environment that isolates Elementor and WordPress from all themes and plugins, it helps multiple users solve issues like this.

    Read about the feature here: https://elementor.com/help/what-is-safe-mode/

    If it did help, then there is a plugin/theme conflict that causes this issue, try to deactivate all plugins and turn them one by one till you find the culprit.

    Hope it helps.

    Kind regards,

    Thread Starter dds

    (@dixonds)

    Is there a way to just attach an image from my snipping tool? But I don’t really need a screenshot to illustrate. In quotes here is an ellipsis with ordinary spaces: ” . . . “, and, here’s the same ellipsis but at ” . . . ” the end of a line of text, the ordinary spaces allow it to break as if it were not a single punctuation mark. Well, heck, now the thing breaks across lines while I’m editing this, but when I submit it does not, so I can’t illustrate it with this text editor.

    There is a special extended character called Nonbreaking Space that keeps things from breaking across lines like that. So the question I have is: How in Elementor do we insert the special characters into our paragraph text? I’m using the ellipses nonbreaking spaces thing only as an example, and wish to know in general how to insert any special extended character.

    Thanks.

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    Thread Starter dds

    (@dixonds)

    I found a way with Microsoft ALT codes that works for the website. I will try to demonstrate here in the forum. Even if the special characters show up in this editor, they may not show in the submitted post. That’s what happens on the website — the indents show in the Editor but not on the live page. Proper indentation is very important.

           By entering ALT 0160 Non-Breaking Space seven times in a row, I can indent this line.  It shows in the Editor.  If I enter ALT 21, I get this character: §.  ALT 0137 makes ‰, ALT 0134 makes ?.  With ALT 138 and ALT 130, you can even spell resume like rèsumé!  Even though the ALT 09 Horizontal Tab does not show on the live page, I will enter it here to see if it shows in forum posts.  It does not. But the nonbreaking spaces will work for indenting.  And you can use two Non-Breaking Spaces after periods so HTML won’t cram your sentences together.

    You don’t need the Rich Text Keyboard Input feature to enter the ALT codes, but if you use it, the special characters display in a different style than the ones without it. Can’t demonstrate that here though; it’s not in the drop-down,

    To enter Microsoft ALT codes, you press and hold the left ALT key, enter the decimal code on the numeric keypad, release the left ALT key. All you need is to find a table of the numeric codes and if necessary convert the Hex values to decimal. There is a nuance, however. There are two different bases for the key codes. Codes with a leading zero like ALT 0160 yield a different character than codes without a leading zero. So ALT 0160 is Non-Breaking Space, but ALT 160 is á. The base with the leading zeros contains the control characters.

    The best ALT codes table I found is at altcodeunicode.com.

    Plugin Support Milos

    (@miloss84)

    Hi there,

    Great you find solution.

    And thank you for the great feedback.

    I wish you all the best, and have a great day!

    Kind regards,

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