When creating content, there are certain special characters that can be inserted to optimize the layout on the various devices. We will provide the most common characters here so you can use them to improve your content.
The provided special characters are supported by most browsers.
Soft hyphen
Sometimes a very long word is used in content, that is cut off in the design or negatively influences the design.
You can insert an invisible hyphen for a long word, which is intended to separate the word in smaller screens. To do so, you can copy the character from this website.
In a regular textfield with HTML formatting, ­ can also be inserted as an alternative.
It is an invisible control character (so-called Soft hyphen ), which is supported by most browsers.
The soft hyphen can be copied directly here: https://unicode-explorer.com/c/00AD
Protected space
There are terms (brands, "CHF 200" etc.) that are separated by a space but should not be broken.
A protected space can be inserted to prevent the break. Depending on the system, a different key combination is required for this. Here is a list of the various key combinations for inserting this character.
In HTML, this is called - However, this cannot be used in fields where HTML is not permitted (e.g. titles).