BASIC HTML 101

Overall HTML format: Paragraph Control
                                             and Special Characters


HTML flows all text together eliminating line spaces and paragraph breaks unless tags are inserted. To maintain paragraphing and create lists, special tags are used:

paragraph: <p> </p> - causes a blank line to be inserted between the paragraphs.
line break: <br> - causes a carriage-return/line-feed to be inserted.

The non-breaking-space (&nbsp;) is used to force the browser to insert white space,
                                                                       ...like at the beginning of this line.

&nbsp; is especially useful in generating borders for table cells that are otherwise empty:

NOT EMPTY CELL Cell below is empty Cell below uses &nbsp;
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Some characters have special meanings in HTML and need special treatment: 

    &amp;       displays    &
    &lt;        displays    < 
    &gt;        displays    >

The ampersand (&) and semicolon (;) are also used to create special characters: 

    &quot;      displays the double-quote sign  "

    &copy;      displays the "copyright" sign    ©   - or -
    ∓#169;   displays the "copyright" sign    ©

    ∓#174;   displays the "registered" sign   ®
Here's some links to lists of special characters:
  • a really good full list of special characters on the web ( local copy here )
  • a full list of special characters on the web supported in HTML 2.0
  • another local special character set

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