On http://google.com's source code (view-source:https://www.google.com/), there is the a meta tag like this:
<meta content="Let the matches begin! Celebrate ⚽ around the 🌎🌍🌏 in today's #GoogleDoodle!" property="twitter:description">
How were those those emojis added to the source code? How is it possible to generate such a page dynamically (what would be written on the server side for the HTML to be generated like this)?
Those are Unicode characters.
For adding emojis into HTML, you can use the decimal (dec) or hexadecimal (hex) reference found in the table on w3school web page.
You can also check my shoe emojis example by running the code snippet below :-)
<p style="font-size:50px">👟 👟</p>
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I want to add a back link in html. Because my code makes a link open in a new tab I made my code close the current code. So I typed this:
↩ Back
But it shows up with this: ↩ Back not this: ↩ Now I'm wondering if you can't actually put symbols on to html.
If anyone knows the answer I will be very happy.
You can add the same symbol using Unicode. The html code is
↵ you can add different symbols on HTML even emojis. More on on this here. Hope this helps.
One way to show a Unicode symbol in HTML would be to substitute it for its character entity.
The character you're looking for in this case is either ↩, ↩, ↩ or ↩:
<div>↩</div>
<div>↩</div>
<div>↩</div>
<div>↩</div>
A full list of character entities can be found here for reference.
<meta charset="UTF-8"> to change your encoding? From w3schools. You might need a different encoding.
How can I use for example the glyph name "rcaron.terminal" which has no Unicode value in HTML? or any other such case? Is it even possible? I think it must be surely but I got no clue. It's easy for regular letters like the glyph "ß" where I would just type "ß" and get that character or "ß" (same result) but for glyphs without any Unicode value I don't know what I'm supposed to do...? I've tried also "&rcaron.terminal" but nothing, where as something like "&hearts" would work giving a heart glyph of god knows what font, probably Arial I dunno.
Do I need to use state some specific encoding aside from ANSI in my html document?
ie. < meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-8" > or something... like Im really lost lol
All I found on the net was this http://text-symbols.com/html/unicode/ but I cant find any more info so I came here.
Please help! Thanks! :)
There are no glyphs in HTML which do not have a Unicode name.
If you really need to have a glyph which is not representable using regular Unicode, you might want to create a font of your own and define the glyphs you need in the private use area; but obviously, then, your HTML will be impossible to use without that particular font.
Background links:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/10/embedded-web-fonts/
http://www.font-face.com/
Practical guides:
http://blog.fogcreek.com/trello-uses-an-icon-font-and-so-can-you/
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/07/how-to-make-an-icon-font-the-8-step-guide/
First navigate to this site: https://fontdrop.info/#/?darkmode=true
Upload the file with your font
Click on the Ligatures tab.
Every Glyph should have a Components field
copy the components for the character you want to use
paste that string into HTML
You don't need any & or #, it just detects the string and converts it.
While Iam copying text phrase from notepad++ (phrase include spaces, copyright symbol (©), registered symbol (®) etc) to the html, after saving the html page, it is showing weird characters like  instead of space and other also.
On my html page, Iam having charset under meta tag like charset=UTF-8.
Issue is occurring while copying text from notepad++ only.
Please assist me to resolve this problem.
In HTML (as far as I know), you should always use HTML entities for representing characters like © (which is provided as ©). Here is a complete list of HTML Entities
I want to have in my <title> tag a star character (★). It's not a problem to put &starf or ★ but when I put something like this in html code, when I view source code , of website I see real html code. I want to see star in source code. Is it possible - I can see it here: http://www.kabinysanitarne.pl/
Anybody knows how can I do this? :)
You type a ★ and ensure that the character encoding of the HTML matches the encoding specified in the HTTP headers (and any meta tags that specify it).
A website I've made has a few problems... On one of the pages, wherever there's an apostrophe (') or a dash (-), the symbol gets replaced with a weird black diamond with a question mark in the center of it
Here's what I mean
It seems this is happening all over the site wherever these symbols appear. I've never seen this before, can anyone explain it to me?
Suggestions on how to fix it would also be greatly appreciated.
See http://test.rfinvestments.co.za/index.php?c=team for a clear look at the problem.
It's an encoding problem. You have to set the correct encoding in the HTML head via meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
Replace "ISO-8859-1" with whatever your encoding is (e.g. 'UTF-8'). You must find out what encoding your HTML files are. If you're on an Unix system, just type file file.html and it should show you the encoding. If this is not possible, you should be able to find out somewhere what encoding your editor produces.
You need to change your text to 'Plain text' before pasting into the HTML document. This looks like an error I've had before by pasting straight from MS word.
MS word and other rich text editors often place hidden or invalid chars into your code. Try using — for your dashes, or ’ for apostrophes (etc), to eliminate the need for relying on your char encoding.
I have the same issue in my asp.net web application. I solved by this link
I just replace ' with ’ text like below and my site in browser show apostrophe without rectangle around as in question ask.
Original text in html page
Click the Edit button to change a field's label, width and type-ahead options
Replace text in html page
Click the Edit button to change a field’s label, width and type-ahead options
Look at your actual html code and check that the weird symbols are not originating there. This issue came up when I started coding in Notepad++ halfway after coding in Notepad. It seems to me that the older version of Notepad I was using may have used different encoding to Notepad's++ UTF-8 encoding. After I transferred my code from Notepad to Notepad++, the apostrophes got replaced with weird symbols, so I simply had to remove the symbols from my Notepad++ code.
If you are editing HTML in Notepad you should use "Save As" and alter the default "Encoding:" selection at the botom of the dialog to UTF-8.
you should also include-
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
This un-ambiguously sets the correct character set and informs the browser.
I experienced the same problem when I copied a text that has an apostrophe from a Word document to my HTML code.
To resolve the issue, all I did was deleted the particular word in my HTML and typed it directly, including the apostrophe. This action nullified the original copy and paste acton and displayed the newly typed apostrophe correctly
What I really don't understand with this kind of problem is that the html page I ran as a local file displayed perfectly in Chromium browser, but as soon as I uploaded it to my website, it produced this error.
Even stranger, it displayed perfectly in the Vivaldi browser whether displayed from the local or remote file.
Is this something to do with the way Chromium reads the character set? But why only with a remote file?
I fixed the problem by retyping the text in a simple text editor and making sure the single quote mark was the one I used.