En and em dashes
En dash (–)
- An en dash is commonly used to indicate ranges, such as "Monday-Friday."
- In HTML, you can use the character entity – to represent the en-dash.
- When using the Drupal editor, you can copy and paste this character (-)
- On a Mac, you can type it with the shortcut Option + hyphen (-)
Em dash (—)
- An em dash is typically used to indicate a break in a sentence, similar to parentheses or a colon. On our website, we usually put spaces on each side of the em dash — like that.
- In HTML, you can use the character entity — to represent the em-dash.
- When using the Drupal editor, you can copy and paste this character (—)
- On a Mac, you can type it with the shortcut Shift + Option + hyphen (-)
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