? Question about HTML

[tdowling at lib.washington.edu]

Doug--

HTML uses a number of special characters which cannot be directly
included in text.  Instead, you have to identify them with "character
entities."  There are several lists of these entities floating around
(see if your browser points to any guides for writing HTML); for info
straight from the horse's virtual mouth, try
<URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html>.

For the specific problem of < and > symbols, use &lt; and &gt; ("less
than" and "greater than").


Thomas Dowling
Networked Information Librarian, Public Services
University of Washington Libraries
tdowling at u.washington.edu


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