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Symbol Characters in HTML
Ever wonder what's the best way to represent a symbol or special character in HTML? For example, if you want to display the registered trademark symbol (®), there are at least three ways to do so:
1) Enter the raw character - ®
2) Encode it using a numbered character entity - ®
3) Encode it using a named character entity - ®
There are advantages and disadvantages to each approach. After a little searching, I found an excellent article on the subject at http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm. In this case, they recommend going with the numbered character entity. Check out the article to find out why.
1) Enter the raw character - ®
2) Encode it using a numbered character entity - ®
3) Encode it using a named character entity - ®
There are advantages and disadvantages to each approach. After a little searching, I found an excellent article on the subject at http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm. In this case, they recommend going with the numbered character entity. Check out the article to find out why.
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