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paulscanlon
Courses Plus Student 26,735 PointsAbout reserved characters
Hey guys
Do we seriously need to replace every question mark, apostrophe and exclamation mark in the whole HTML document with ! © etc etc etc?
Would that not be ridiculously tedious? What are the downsides if we don't? (sorry don't)? ;-)
Thanks in advance
Paul
3 Answers
Ezra Siton
12,644 PointsNo. But if you want to print reserved characters like "<div>" you must use this idea.
This is ok:
<p>
I love "treehouse"
</p>
For example, you can write bullet character by "copy-paste" • or by • • (but again when you write code you not always wants to search for this in google and copy-paste so you can use this &bull and that's it.
paulscanlon
Courses Plus Student 26,735 PointsThink i got it, thanks
Callum Anderson
8,837 PointsMy understanding is that < or > must always be replaced by < and > - otherwise the browser will interpret them as tags.
Also mentioned in the video was & being replaced by & as best practice, and to insert an additional space (double spaces or above are truncated into a single space by the browser).
I guess that there will be other uses when mixing with other technologies such as Javascript.