Question about &nbsp

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I find myself using large numbers of the blank space (&nbsp) property to align elements in my layouts. It works, but it smacks of messy coding habits to me. Instead of copying and pasting &nbsp dozens of times in the code, I wondered if there was a way to specify the number to be inserted, for example ( )27 to have 27 blank spaces inserted by the browser.

There may be other ways to do this, but I don’t know enough to know where to look. I looked for a way to set tabs, but found none.

I’ve searched and not found an answer to the question but that might be down to my not knowing how to state the search argument to get hits. I’ve looked through modules of the W3Schools tutorials and references without any luck.

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Using spaces and tabs to align elements is definetely a bad practice.
You can try using line break instead, <br>.
But one of the most convenient ways to arrange elements in your layouts is flexbox, perhaps this is what you need.
CSS Flexbox at W3Schools

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Thanks for the suggestion, Ray13.

I use grids instead of flexboxes because I read that grids are better when both rows and columns are to be defined.

I’ll look into flexbox, for sure.

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