These character entity reference tables have been compiled using the data at w3.org . Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with conforming SGML systems and applications as defined in ISO 8879, provided this notice is included in all copies. More character entities can be found here at fileformat.com Character Entity References for ISO 8859-1 Characters ENTITY ENTITY DISPLAYED DESCRIPTION no-break space = non-breaking space, U+00A0 ISOnum ¡ ¡ inverted exclamation mark, U+00A1 ISOnum ¢ ¢ cent sign, U+00A2 … [Read more...]
Stop < pre > Text Overruns
Posted on September 24, 2009 · 2 Comments
Here's the problem: when you write your own HTML or you use a content management system like Wordpress (using the HTML editor) and you want to showcase HTML code or any other code within a post then you have to do two things: use Character Entities to represent the less than (<), greater than (>), forward-slash (/), back-slash (\) and ampersand (&) characters so that the represented characters are displayed rather than used to designate code tags; and use the <pre> and <code> tags to instruct web browsers to display characters within their opening and closing tags in … [Read more...]
