Special Characters

How to use special characters in HTML

So, have you been wondering how to add an extra space on your page, or how to get a copyright symbol to show up? Then let's see how right now! Special characters are placed on your page by using a special reference to the character you want to use. The reference will begin with an ampersand (&), will be followed by some text or numbers, and end with a semicolon (;) . So as an example, let's say you wanted to place an extra space between two words. To do this, you place the reference   where you would like to add the extra space. Here is what you would do:

Hello  there!

This gives us two spaces between "Hello" and "there!", like this:

Hello there!

The first space is added just using the "space" bar on the keyboard. The Web browser will see the first space, but after that additional spaces will make no difference— you will only see one space in the browser. By adding the   reference, we forced the browser to add an extra space between the two words. You can add as many spaces as you would like by repeating the   reference, like this:

Hello     There!

This will create the first space, and 4 additional spaces between the two words, for a total of five spaces. It will be displayed like this:

Hello There!

The other one we will discuss is the copyright symbol. You use it the same way as an extra space, by placing its reference where you would like to see the symbol on the page. The reference for a copyright symbol is ©. Here's an example:

This will work the same way for any special character you want to use. Just place the reference where you want the character to be on your page. To see a list of some common special characters and their references, see a list of some special characters.

Well, now you are ready to go on to the next section. Yes, you now get to learn the wonderful art of Linking!