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You can use newline characters in URLs (opens in new tab)

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We locate web content using special addresses called URLs. We are all familiar with addresses like https://google.com. Sometimes, URLs can get long and they can become difficult to read. Thus, we might be tempted to format them like so in HTML using newline and tab characters, like so: <a href="https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/21/ how-fast-do-browsers-correct-utf-16-strings/">my blog post</a> It will! … Continue reading You can use newline characters in URLs

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