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Basic Special Characters
& for displaying '&' character
&lt; for displaying '<' character
&gt; for displaying '>' character
&quot; for displaying " character
  Basic special characters accommodate means of displaying some of HTML reserved characters without invoking HTML instructions. Especially useful when displaying HTML codes in the webpage format.

No Break Blank Space
&nbsp;
  HTML Standard does not supports multiple white spaces (i.e., more than two blank spaces) and any multiple white spaces will be treated as a single space. Time to time, it is necessary to have more than one white space. In such case, you can use &nbsp; special character.

As a rule of thumb, if you have to use more than three &nbsp; characters, consider using <TABLE> tag with a WIDTH=px element.

 

Need white space!

<H1>Need white     space!</H1>

Need white     space!

<H1>Need white
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;space!</H1>
ISO 8859 Latin-1 Special Characters
&[#number|alias];
  For displaying extended ASCII table characters and international characters, you can use ISO-8859 Latin-1 character set (ISO=International Standard Organization) which is a HTML 4.0 standard.

All ISO-8859 Latin-1 character set symbols are supported by popular browsers.

ISO-8859 Latin Listed by Number

ISO-8859 Latin List by Alias


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