Special Characters

WHAT?

That was pretty much my first reaction to these. It seemed useless at the time. But, for instance, if I was typing a P tag in a tutorial I would have to use &lt;p&gt;, which results in <p>. The reason for this is if I were attempting to make the browser show a P tag to you in a tutorial, for instance, I couln't just type the tag or the browser would think that I meant to start a paragraph. This would not show the actual code, but whatever effect the code was meant to generate.

There is really no tag here, so just type the code of the character to display that character. In my opinion, the most important one is &nbsp;. That is a space. It is the easiest way to add a indention into a paragraph. You can just put about five of them at the beginning of your paragraph, right after the P tag. Here's a table of some of the more popular ones.

For more characters, try Chami.Com Tips and Ted's HTML Tutorial. Also try CodePunk's Special Character Lesson.

Easy stuff, right? The next lesson is a long one about links.