12.2 White Space
White space code points are used to improve source text readability and to separate tokens (indivisible lexical units) from each other, but are otherwise insignificant. White space code points may occur between any two tokens and at the start or end of input. White space code points may occur within a
The ECMAScript white space code points are listed in
Code Point | Name | Abbreviation |
---|---|---|
U+0009
|
CHARACTER TABULATION | <TAB> |
U+000B
|
LINE TABULATION | <VT> |
U+000C
|
FORM FEED (FF) | <FF> |
U+0020
|
SPACE | <SP> |
U+00A0
|
NO-BREAK SPACE | <NBSP> |
U+FEFF
|
ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE | <ZWNBSP> |
Other category “Zs” | Any other Unicode “Space_Separator” code point | <USP> |
ECMAScript implementations must recognize as
Other than for the code points listed in