HTML escaping (thread = jacked) by
Tomash
on 2015-12-04 05:53:00 UTC
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I hope you get better soon Iximaz. Anyway, on to the computer mumbo-jumbo:
HTML has three (and in some cases five) characters that have a special meaning to the browser when they appear in text. They are <, >, & and sometimes ' and ". In general, if you want to use any of the first three, you need to escape them. To do this, you do as follows:
To show |
Type |
< |
< |
> |
> |
< |
> |
Now, you can sometimes get away without doing this because browsers try really hard to deal with people who don't know how to write HTML. (This is why the whole "weird color names" thing works as well). However, you need to use escaping when you write things that might look like tags, such as anything an Andalite might say.
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