Html

lets say i want to put in a tag to do somethin in html but i cant use "<" or ">" is there other chars i can use?i f not what can i do that dosent need them?

Why can't you use those characters?

in HTML?
you could probably get away with javascript. no..wait - you still need the <script> tag.

If you can't use "<" or ">" then try using

"&lt;" or "&gt;"...

Sonia

Why wouldn't you be able to use the "<" or ">" tags? Unless your were trying to use html someplace where for security purposes someone is stripping the tags so that you can't use html...

Josh

yes that is the case is there a way to buypass that? its not something bad i just want have images in the SOMETHING

You can use &lt; and &gt;, but the tags are being stripped before the web browser sees it. So you can't submit a tag, just <img scr=yadda.gif>.

Mmm... are the tags being stripped, or is everything you submit just quoted? Maybe you could end their quote tag.

I dunno. I'd have to play with their system.

here is where my text gets put in the html


<p align="left"><font face="Verdana" size="2">MY TEXT</font></p>

and when use &lt; and &gt; its just shows the tags in the html as text

what are the &; things anyway where can i get a list of them?

They ar used to display special chars

& amp; - displays the ampersand (&)
& lt; - Less than sign
& gt; - Greater than sign
& quot; - Double quote sign
& nbsp - &nbsp; - non breaking space
& copy - &copy; - (c) symbol
& pound - &pound;
& yen - &yen;
& reg - &reg;
& deg - &deg; - degree symbol
& plmn; - +/- symbol
& sup2 - &sup2; - square symbol
& sup3 - &sup3; - cube symbol

Remove the spaces after '&' to make them work

There are lots.. but i remeber just these

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html

This is the official page for it.. seemed a bit confusing though..

Here, use this, it's a lot easier to read.

that was cool Wynd.. why don't the people at w3c keep it like that?.. in an understandable manner

Your browser will be able to read the plain text version. Its inefficient but it works...

Ehh, who knows? Probably they have to consider the possibility that some old browsers can't read tables. but I don't know.

Oh yeah and thanks :)