HTML and a Bonus

[c9]

Tonight's HTML lesson, boys and girls, is on symbols. There are all sorts of cute little symbols you can use to spice up your posts. For example,you can create the trademark symbol by typing an ampersand (&) followed by the word trade, finished with a semicolon. Like this: ™ = ™

Be careful to include the semicolon. Internet Explorer will pretend it's there if you forget, but Firefox won't, and you'll be all embarassed about your typo.

Others I like: © (©), £ (£), ¾ (¾), and € (€).

Many many more: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

I tell you all this so as to give you a movie review. I ♥ Huckabees is really messed up.

I cheated. There's no HTML code for a ♥. I had to copy it out of Character Map.

Comments

[leapfish.livejournal.com]

we're all better when we learn!

[ratonil.livejournal.com]

Ok it's silly but I think how ampersand sounds it's beautiful.

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

of course, using the straight-up numbers corresponding to the symbols is considered "safer" and more standards-compliant. £ for £ instead of using £ for example.

then again, who the hell remembers those?

[c9.livejournal.com]

I thought it was considered *less* safe, since ASCII numbers only exist on systems that use ASCII or ASCII-compliant coding. (i.e. Japanese uses different codes)

I've never actually checked though.

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

i was referring to more safe as in not all browsers support the named titles of the characters. what SHOULD be happening is that ALL browsers should be fully 100% unicode, which IS internationally compliant and supports every language char-set and such.

what bugs me is that MS has horrible unicode support, especially in IE AND in the Office suite.

(did i mention that OS X and Safari both have amazing unicode support?)

check this out! (new window)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Purty!

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Peronally, I prefer GNOME. :-)

My Mac and I are on the outs right now... we're having a fight over Dashboard.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

I turned off I ♥ Huckabees right after the scene where Jude Law is portrayed as a wet nurse. I won't tell you what I said, it's inappropriate for a public blog post.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a bit much.

you're on MSDN!

[petele.livejournal.com]

I needed to look up the © symbol today, and knew you had just linked to it, so I looked up your post, and then linked from my MSDN blog to you ;)

Re: you're on MSDN!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I'm spending my 15 minutes of fame on MSDN? That's not as celebrated as I was hoping for. :)

[(Anonymous)]

code for ♥ is:
(♥)

[c9.livejournal.com]

neat! thanks!

oops

[(Anonymous)]

i'll try it again...

the code for ♥ is:

( & hearts ;) when putting the code there should be no spaces between the & and the ;.
L.

hey

[(Anonymous)]

whats up

Re: hey

[(Anonymous)]

I love anonymous comments. Especially the ones with barely any content! :)