Common html characters
I've needed these so many times I've lost count. So I don't need to dig to find them again, here are a few html special characters and how to make them:
© - ©
® - ®
™ - ™
» - »
« - «
… - …
· - ·
• - • or •
January 8th, 2003 at 12:00 pm
There are also some interesting icon escapes. I've never tried to use them, but they apparently exist!
And don't forget these:
¢ = & cent ;
° = & deg ;
¶ = & para ;
¼ = & frac14 ;
½ = & frac12 ;
¾ = & frac34 ;
♥ = & hearts ;
HTMLHelp.com has my favorite easy-to-read reference list for escapes.
January 8th, 2003 at 12:12 pm
Ah yes! There was two in there that I use ALL the time, but always enter it wrong:
— - —
and
– - –
(I'm always writing it &emdash; - which obviously won't work)
January 8th, 2003 at 12:15 pm
I just have this page bookmarked.
January 8th, 2003 at 12:18 pm
Oh my gosh. I love those icon escapes though!
ℑ &stop;
January 8th, 2003 at 12:19 pm
ok, apparently I need to read the whole page on the icon escapes because more seems to be involved than just using the symbol… hehe
January 9th, 2003 at 10:53 am
Also, you can use … for … - that's easier for me to remember.
Something worth noting: I use EditPlus (editplus.com) for when I'm coding. It has a bit of a learning curve, but the tradeoff is that it's incredibly flexible. It does syntax highlighting, all kinds of nice code-related bits (I won't bore you!) …but the one I use most of all are the cliptexts.
Basically, cliptexts are little user-contributed files available for download from the site. They're shortcuts - you double-click on what you want and the text for it is inserted where your cursor is. There are cliptexts for PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS…virtually everything you can think of…and there's one for just about every accented or 'special' character you can think of.
After all, you can't do a really good smiley without knowing about Þ (Þ) and þ (þ).
January 9th, 2003 at 1:21 pm
I found these on ScriptyGoddess.com, full archive here. Its a selection of commonly used and not so easily recalled symbols
January 10th, 2003 at 4:24 pm
Here's another one! when I was adding the weather to my page, I had to go and search for the ° symbol — its °
January 10th, 2003 at 4:26 pm
Oops, now I read Meredith's comment and see that the degree symbol was already mentioned. LOL!
January 11th, 2003 at 1:10 am
i prefer to use the numeric entity of all special characters that i use, as i find that they are more likely to render correctly in more browsers.
January 12th, 2003 at 8:25 pm
sweet, I was wondering how to do the Trademark sign!
January 13th, 2003 at 3:35 pm
You learn something new every day. It's true. I was just adding things to Amphetadesk, and I noticed I couldn't