Special Characters

Html contains special characters that need to represented properly to show up correctly on the web page. They are reffered to as character entities. Each character entity begins with and ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon(;). Both the amersand and the semicolon are absolutly necessary to be interpreted properly. Some are interpreted with numbers, some with words, and some numbers or words. For example, the copyright symbol(©) can be represented as © or ©. Googling the phrase "special characters html" will bring up a number of sites that have quick refrence.to most of the symbols. W3Schools is has a nice list and because they set the standards for web code, the list can be considered reliable. A cheat sheet is always nice to have on hand for quick refrence.