I will admit that I have a habit of using between words when I don't want them to break (table headers for example).
Should I really style my element with white-space:nowrap? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to either if the only thing I am looking to do is keep words from wrapping?
There are cases where nonbreaking space cannot help:
hyphens: auto is used for the container element to do hyphenation automatically.In these cases, white-space: nowrap is useful. Also, nonbreaking space works regardless of whether styles are applied to document while CSS rules solely work when styles are enabled.