Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Put Your HTML Page Online Today
- I. Your First Web Page
- Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
- Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
- Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
- Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
- II. Web Page Text
- Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
- Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
- Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
- Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
- III. Web Page Graphics
- Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
- Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
- Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
- Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
- IV. Web Page Design
- Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
- Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
- Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
- Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
- V. Dynamic Web Pages
- Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
- Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
- Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
- Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
- VI. Building a Web Site
- Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
- Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
- Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
- Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
- VII. Appendixes
- A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
- B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
- C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
- D. HTML Character Entities
Special Characters
Most fonts now include special characters for European languages, such as the accented é in Café. There are also a few mathematical symbols and special punctuation marks such as the circular • bullet.
You can insert these special characters at any point in an HTML document by looking up the appropriate codes in Table 6.2 or in the complete list of character entities in Appendix D, "HTML Character Entities." You'll find an even more extensive list of codes for multiple character sets online at http://www.w3.org/tr/rec-html40/sgml/entities.html .
For example, the word Café would look like this:
café
Each symbol also has a mnemonic name that might be easier to remember than the number. Here is another way to write Café:
café
Notice that there are also codes for the angle brackets, quotation, and ampersand in Table 6.2. You need to use the codes if you want these symbols to appear on your pages; otherwise, the Web browser interprets them as HTML commands.
Table 6.2. Important English-Language Special Characters
| Character | Numeric Code | Code Name | Description |
| " | " | " | Quotation mark |
| & | & | & | Ampersand |
| < | < | < | Less than |
| > | > | > | Greater than |
| ¢ | ¢ | ¢ | Cent sign |
| £ | £ | £ | Pound sterling |
| | | ¦ | ¦ or brkbar; | Broken vertical bar |
| § | § | § | Section sign |
| © | © | © | Copyright |
| ® | ® | ® | Registered trademark |
| ° | ° | ° | Degree sign |
| ± | ± | ± | Plus or minus |
| 2 | ² | ² | Superscript two |
| 3 | ³ | ³ | Superscript three |
| · | · | · | Middle dot |
| 1 | ¹ | ¹ | Superscript one |
| ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | Fraction one-fourth |
| ½ | ½ | ½ | Fraction one-half |
| ¾ | ¾ | ¾ | Fraction three-fourths |
| Æ | Æ | Æ | Capital AE ligature |
| æ | æ | æ | Small ae ligature |
| É | É | É | Accented capital E |
| é | é | é | Accented small e |
| x | × | Multiply sign | |
| ÷ | ÷ | Division sign |
In Figures 6.6 and 6.7, several more of the symbols from Table 6.2 and Appendix D are shown in use.
)
Figure 6.6 Special character codes begin with & and end with ;.
)
Figure 6.7 This is how the HTML page in Figure 6.6 will look in most, but not all, Web browsers.
Summary | Next Section
Account Sign In
View your cart