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<Special Characters>

 
    Special characters are treated a little differently in HTML.   They aren't tucked into brackets.  Instead, they are prefaced by an ampersand (&) and ended with a semicolon (;).  Most are easily decoded.

Special Characters
Code Character Description
&amp; & ampersand
&lt; < less than
&gt; > greater than
&quot; " quotation mark
&copy; © copyright
&reg; ® registered trademark
&AElig; Æ "AE" dipthong
&aelig; æ "ae" dipthong


   This list is definitely not all inclusive there are a bunch of special character codes available for use.  More than I can list here.

Comments in HTML

To help you keep track of your code HTML supports comments.  Any text surrounded by <!-- and --> are ignored by browsers.

Example:

<HTML>
<!--Modified 20 January 1997-->
<TITLE>Example for Special Characters lesson</TITLE>
<BODY>
&lt;B&gt; is the bold tag!<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Displays:

<B> is the bold tag!

in your browser window.


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