April 28, 2006, Newsletter Issue #65: Entities

Tip of the Week

Have you ever wanted to place special characters in a web page? HTML allows us to view special characters and other symbols that would otherwise be interpreted as markup by the browser through the use of character and numerical entities. All characters in the ISO8859-1 character set have a numerical and/or character entity. Here΄s a quick example:
type: & e grave (without extra spaces)
to produce this: θ

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