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Special Characters HTML has a number of special characters that are normally recognised by the browser as part of a tag and so they are not displayed by the browser. You may want to include one of these characters in the actual body of your document - for example, you need a > or a < sign in a mathematical equation - or in a HTML tutorial (like this one). You must somehow prevent the web browser from interpreting the symbols as parts of a tag. The following four characters:
can be displayed in the browser as follows,
Accents In many languages there are accented characters. Again they are sandwiched between an & sign and a ; (a semi-colon). For example, to get an acute lower-case letter "e" you'd type
and you'd type:
Take a look at the following chart for more conversions
The last item in the table above , is called a fixed space. Just as carraige returns are not recognised by the browser, neither are multiple spaces. If you want multiple spaces between words or characters you must use for each space. So if you type: Celticweb SPACEBAR SPACEBAR SPACEBAR SPACEBAR SPACEBAR Internet
Where SPACEBAR is you hitting the SPACEBAR, the browser would display:
Celticweb Internet So you need to type: Celticweb Internet to get Celticweb Internet Find out more about special characters.
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