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HTML Tutorial
How do I use the special characters in HTML in the browser itself?
Raw HTML tags, such as the <, >, and & may need to be displayed in a browser.
Since browsers read those characters as HTML tags, there are special ways to
display those characters. This tutorial will show those special characters, and
how to use clean code to communicate with other designers, or those that may
come behind you. These are called character entities.
How do I use a less than or greater than tag inside my web page?
Since HTML tags use characters that are used by the HTML tags, you can convert
those tags into clean code tags, so browsers such as Internet Explorer and
Netscape read the tag as a greater than or less than tag, and not as a tag that
is suppose to be hidden. Here is an example:
10 > 5
To write this tag, you would use special characters in place of the actual
symbol. All character entities start with an ampersand ( & ) and end with a
semicolon( ; ). The greater-than symbol would be ( gt )(short for Greater Than).
The actual HTML is: 10 > 5
11 < 20 Here, the HTML is: 11 < 20
Notice that the character entities do not get placed inside the HTML containers!
<>
How do I use spaces inside my HTML page?
Spaces can be "hard coded" inside your HTML page. As you may have seen by now,
"white space", or blank space is not translated into space when viewing an HTML
page, thus if you need to hard code spaces inside your HTML page, there is a
special tag that can be used.
This is a tab. This is another tab.
The code: This is a
tab. This is another tab.
How do I use an ampersand and double quotes inside my HTML page?
Double quotes and ampersands can also be hard coded. These tags look like
this...
I spoke to Sally and she said, "Bobby likes soup & salad."
The code: I spoke to Salley and she said, "Bobby likes soup &
salad."
Can I put copyright tags inside my website and other comments that people
can't see?
Most Internet websites are business websites. Thus, most of their data, web
design, etc., can be copyrighted. The copyright sign (©) can be displayed at the
bottom of the page by the following tag:
Copyright © aihost.net.
The code: Copyright © aihost.net.
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