Escape Sequences

Description:

Sometimes it is necessary to display special HTML reserved characters as text. In order to do this you must use an escape sequence. Standard characters are shown in Numeric And Special Graphics Sequences and extended characters are in the table ISO Latin Escape Sequences.

Escape sequences begin with the ampersand character (&), followed by the sequence, and ending with a semi-colon. If you end the sequence with a space instead, a space will be inserted after the special character. Semi-colon does not insert the space.

Attributes:

Examples:

This is how you would insert double quotes. The output looks as follows:

He was a "big man" on campus.

Numeric And Special Graphics Sequences

The special sequences are shown below.

ISO Latin Escape Sequences:

A table of the ISO Latin escape sequences is shown below. This is from the document Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0, September 22, 1995.