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Special characters are symbols that may not be included on your keyboard
such as "¢" and symbols that are reserved for HTML use such as
"<" and ">". HTML contains special markup for
displaying these symbols in your document. This markup begins with an ampersand(&)
and ends with a semi-colon (;).
This makes more sense with an example. Suppose you want to show in your document the proper
syntax of the HTML IMG tag.
<img src="filename" width="" height="" align="" border="" alt="">
If you just put the above tag syntax as-is in your document, the browser will
try to interpret it as HTML and will display a white box with a red
x, which is the default picture for a missing image. This is because
the "<" and ">" symbols are
interpreted as the start and end of an HTML tag.
Instead, use the HTML markup for these special characters,
< for "<" and > for ">".
Now you can show the the proper syntax by using...
<img src="filename" width="" height="" align="" border="" alt ="">
There are many more special characters that have this markup. Below is
a list of those that are commonly used.
| Symbol | Markup |
|---|
| " | " |
| & | & |
| < | < |
| > | > |
| blank space | |
| ¢ | ¢ |
| © | © |
| ® | ® |
| ½ | ½ |
| ¼ | ¼ |
| ¾ | ¾ |
| ‘ | ‘ |
| ’ | ’ |
| “ | “ |
| ” | ” |
As an exercise, try reproducing the table above.
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