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Displaying Special Characters

Author: Jeff Singer Author's URL: www.bignosebird.com More by this author
Added:Nov 17, 2004 Rating:   Level: All levels Software: Dreamweaver FrontPage GoLive  

Displaying Special Characters
Why does putting an & in my text mess up my page?

For the full list of displayable characters, check out the ASCII CHART.

Example

I had to learn this one early- I was the MIS Director for Jacoby & Meyers!

I want to use the words, "me & you" so that they appear
just like that. I also want to do a smiley face ;->
or maybe a sad face ;-<

Some characters like > & < have special meaning to HTML. Therefore we must use special codes

& is &amp;, < is &lt;, and > is &gt;

Source code

I had to learn this one early- I was the MIS Director for
Jacoby &amp; Meyers!

I want to use the words, "me &amp; you" so that they appear
just like that. I also want to do a smiley face ;-&gt;
or maybe a sad face ;-&lt;