I would like to paste into my HTML code a phrase
"<car>"
and I would like that this word "car" will be between <>. In some text will be
"<car>"
and this is not a HTML expression. The problem is that when I put it the parser think that this is the HTML syntax how to avoid it. Is there any expression which need to be between this?
replace < by < and > by >
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< and > are special characters, more special characters in HTML you can find here.
More about HTML entities you can find here.
use > for > and < for <
$gt;car<
you need to use special character .. To know more about Special Character link here
CODE:
<p>"<car >"</p>
OUTPUT:
"<car>"
< = < less than
> = > greater than
The same applies for XML too. Take a look here, special characters for HTML.
If you really want LESS THAN SIGN “<” to appear visibly in page content, write it as &, so that it will not be treated as starting a tag. Ref.: 5.3.2 Character entity references in HTML 4.01.
So you would write
<car>
If you like, you can write “>” as > for symmetry, but there is no need to.
But if you really want to put something in angle brackets, e.g. using a mathematical notation, rather than a markup notation (as in HTML and XML), consider using U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET “⟨” and U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET “⟩”. They cause no problems to HTML markup, as they are not markup-significant. If you don’t know how to type them in your authoring environment, you can use character references for them:
⟨car⟩
This would result in ⟨car⟩, though as always with less common special characters, you would need to consider character (font) problems.
You can use the "greater than" and "less than" entities:
<car>
The W3C, the organization responsible for setting web standards, has some pretty good documentation on HTML entities. They consist of an ampersand followed by an entity name followed by a semicolon (&name;) or an ampersand followed by a pound sign followed by an entity number followed by a semicolon (&#number;). The link I provided has a table of common HTML entities.
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On a webpage I found a tag that begins with a Unicode letter 休
Is there a list somewhere of the letters and symbols may validly follow right after the less than sign?
They're not using a mark-up less than sign "<" on their site but rather they are using the HTML entity less than < to display the reserved character as text rather than HTML.
This can be treated just like ordinary text. So in essence, it's not a tag, its just ordinary text.
For instance the line:
<font style="color:#F00;"><休闲文化></font>
Actually is:
<font style="color:#F00;"><休闲文化></font>
Thus, <休闲文化> isn't a tag itself, but rather just text (which uses HTML reserved characters within it - perhaps marking you confuse it for a tag)
In which context is it used? XML, HTML,...?
In case of HTML there are tags already defined, you can't use a random one. In XML you can define you're own tags. In both cases you might use random tags, while not ending up with error you would notice, the tag might just get skipped.
I believe this Wiki page might help you:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
All characters you want (but you should quote few).
As you notice, the character <休 come in <a href="http:(...)" target="_blank" title="<休闲文化>【成都大熊猫基. So this is inside a string (an attribute value). The < in this case will not indicate a start of a tag.
I'm trying to include < and > in a URL to reference an erlang Pid.
My output:
"You see only the darkness of the cavern.<br><a href=/choices/<0.223.0>>Venture cautiously.</a><br>"
I paste this into foo.html and open, I get a link to
file:///%22/choices/<0.207.0%3E/%22
notice the > came from the %3E but the < did not. Why did both HTML characters not stay as < and > ?
You should mark the end of an entity with a semicolon, for example <.
Otherwise, it's ambiguous where the name ends. For >>, it is interpreted that the name is gt, because > is not a valid character for an entity name (it's not ASCII alphanumeric). However in <0, 0 is a valid character in an entity name. But lt0 is not a defined entity. Supposedly there's some logic to find valid names in prefixes, but it would be nice to avoid relying on that altogether.
See here if you're interested in how exactly HTML entities are tokenized: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#character-reference-state
I want to type the following sentence in a markdown file: she says <h1> is large. I can do it in StackOverflow with three backticks around h1, but this doesn't work for a .md file. I've also tried a single backtick, single quote, double quote, hashtags, spacing, <code>h1</code> and everything else I could think of. Is there a way to do this?
You can escape the < characters by replacing them with <, which is the HTML escape sequence for <. You're sentence would then be:
she says <h1> is large
As a side note, the original Markdown "spec" has the following to say:
However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and ampersands are always encoded automatically. This makes it easy to use Markdown to write about HTML code. (As opposed to raw HTML, which is a terrible format for writing about HTML syntax, because every single < and & in your example code needs to be escaped.)
...which means that, if you're still getting tags when putting them in backticks, whatever renderer you're using isn't "compliant" (to the extent that one can be compliant with that document), and you might want to file a bug.
Generally, you can surround the code in single backticks to automatically escape the characters. Otherwise just use the HTML escapes for < <and > >.
i.e.
she says <h1> is large or she says `<h1>` is large
A backslash (\) can be used to escape < and >.
Ex: she says <h1> is large
P.S. See this answer's source by clicking Edit.
I am currently creating a webpage to teach others HTML. In my HTML document, I want to make a paragraph like, "Start with html, and end with /html". The html and /html should have <> tags around them, but I don't know how to do this! (this is my question) The document just leaves html and /html (with <> around them) out. How do I make sure that the document leaves it in?
Thank you.
Use HTML entities
To write the characters < and > use < and >
This gives you:
<html> and </html>
Rendered as:
<html> and </html>
This is called HTML Entities. A more complete list can be found here or on wikipedia.
In HTML, there is a standard set of 252 named character entities for
characters - some common, some obscure - that are either not found in
certain character encodings or are markup sensitive in some contexts
(for example angle brackets and quotation marks). Although any Unicode
character can be referenced by its numeric code point, some HTML
document authors prefer to use these named entities instead, where
possible, as they are less cryptic and were better supported by early
browsers. Character entities can be included in an HTML document via
the use of entity references, which take the form &EntityName;, where
EntityName is the name of the entity. For example, —, much like
— or —, represents U+2014: the em dash character "—" even
if the character encoding used doesn't contain that character.
Use amp codes (HTML Entities)!
<p><html></p>
You can use the HTML entities: > for >, < for <.
If you want to display HTML tags replace all < and > with < and <
Example: <HTML>
use < for < and >for >
What are escape tags in html?
Are they " < > to represent " < >?
And how do these work?
Is that hex, or what is it?
How is it made, and why aren't they just the characters themselves?
Here are some common entities. You do not need to use the full code - there are common aliases for frequently used entities. For example, you can use < and > to indicate less than and greater than symbols. & is ampersand, etc.
EDIT: That should be - < > and &
EDIT: Another common character is   which is often used to represent tabs in <code> segments
How do these work?
Anything &#num; is replaced with character from ASCII table, matching that num.
Is that hex, or what is it?
It's not hex, the number represents characters number in decimal in ASCII table. Check out ASCII table. Check Dec and HTML columns.
Why aren't they just the characters themselves?
Look at this example:
<div>Hey you can use </div> to end div tag!</div>
It would mess up the interpreter. It's a bad example, but you got the idea.
Why you can't use escape characters like in programming languages?
I don't have exact answer to that. But html same as xml is a markup language and not programming language and answer probably lies within history of how markup languages become what they are now.
No, it's not hex, it's decimal. Hex equivalent is < But one usually uses < (less-than) for < and > for > instead.
Here is the complete reference of html entities:
Complete HTML Entities
It is use for correct character formatting
HTML has a set of special characters which browsers recognize as part of the HTML language itself. For example, browsers know that when they encounter a < character in the HTML code, they are to interpret it as a beginning of a tag. > is one of an example of reserved character. Therefore use html character to avoid any problem and for correct practice also
Those escapes are decimal ascii escapes. You can see the values here. Take a look at the HTML column.