Adding Special Characters

Occasionally you will want to include special characters in your Web page that do not appear on your keyboard. For example ® or ©. HTML supports several character symbols that you can insert into your page. Each character symbol is identified by a code number or name. To create a special character, type  an ampersand (&) followed either by the code name or code number. Code numbers must be preceded by a pound symbol (#). The chart below shows some HTML symbols and the corresponding code numbers or names.
 
 
 
Symbol Code Description
© &#169  Copyright symbol
® &#174 Registered trademark
· &#183 Middle dot
º &#186 Masculine ordinal
&#153 Trademark symbol
&nbsp Non-breaking space, useful when you want to
insert several blank spaces one after another
< &lt Less than sign
> &gt Greater than sign
& &amp Ampersand



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