Non-breaking parentheses?

Question

In the footer of a flexible-layout website I\'ve noticed that IE tends to line-wrap on parenthesis characters (in a phone number in this case). Is there a visually equivale

Answer 1

I have had the same problem; here is a solution which worked:

The number to call is: (423) 276—0000

According to the Unicode Standard (specifically, UAX #14), a line break is not permitted before or after a no-break space. Therefore, the   prevents the browser from line-breaking on the parentheses. In either case, it doesn't hurt to have a space between the area code and the phone number.