HTML Web Design Tutorial #8

Inserting Special Characters into Your Web Page

Take a look at your keyboard, and you'll see a lot of keys for inserting letters, numbers, and even some symbols. However, most common keyboards are missing certain characters that you may want to put on your web page. The copyright symbol © is a good example of this.

Fortunately there's a way to display these special characters on a web page, by using a reference code. Basically, every character is represented by a numeric position. By inserting a reference code that contains that particular number, you can create its corresponding character. Some of the characters can even be referenced by using a designated word called a character entity reference.

In lesson #8 we will see how to add both the numeric, and entity codes using the copyright symbol as an example. You may also want to see our full list of character references. To begin, click on the play button below.

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