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Tick symbol in HTML/XHTML
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Is there an HTML entity for a check mark?
I've searched for it in various html entities cheat sheets but didn't find it
Something like this?
✔
if so, type the HTML ✔
And ✓ gives a lighter one:
✓
Here are a couple: http://www.amp-what.com/unicode/search/check%20mark
✓
✔
HTML and XML entities are just a way of referencing a Unicode code-point in a way that reliably works regardless of the encoding of the actual page, making them useful for using esoteric Unicode characters in a page using 7-bit ASCII or some other encoding scheme, ideally on a one-off basis. They're also used to escape the <, >, " and & characters as these are reserved in SGML.
Anyway, Unicode has a number of tick/check characters, as per Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick_(check_mark) ).
Ideally you should save/store your HTML in a Unicode format like UTF-8 or 16, thus obviating the need to use HTML entities to represent a Unicode character. Nonetheless use: ✔ ✔.
✔
✔
Is using hex notation and is the same as
$#10004;
(as 2714 in base 16 is the same as 10004 in base 10)
There is HTML entity ✓ but it doesn't work in some older browsers.
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My question is very similar to this, but didn't find my answer there.
From the link, I could gather that HTML supports the display of ISO 8859/1 8-bit single-byte coded graphic characters, through numerical representations such as:
&32; for Space.
&33; for Exclamation mark.
The above won't be resolved unless the entity names are prefixed with the #:
for Space would be resolved.
! for Exclamation mark would be resolved.
What is the reason for prefixing the entity names with the # symbol for these characters, when the ISO Latin 1 Character Entities do not follow the same standards.
It can be deduced that the HTML parser would be written in such a way to deal with these, but it would be great to know why this standard was introduced in the first place.
The full gory details of how these are processed is detailed in the parsing section of the HTML 5 specification. You notably want to read the links to "consume a character reference".
HTML 3 was never relevant, and even HTML 3.2 was superseded long ago. ISO documents are also irrelevant in this context.
Following the parsing algorithm can be painful (at least, it takes some getting used-to), but it is guaranteed correct.
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HTML and character encoding vs HTML Entity
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I'm using some special characters like × (×) or … (…) in my html pages.
Somewhere I'm using unicode character directly, but somewhere I'm using encoded entity like &hellip.
I want to tidy up my code and can't decide what notation is better.
I could find just two pros and cons:
using character directly I can set text in javascript using text method like $("#button").text("Loading…"), instead of html which could lead to XSS issues
using characters directly can lead to encoding issues in case of misconfigured server
Maybe I'm missing something important? What is the best practice?
If you use Unicode directly there's a chance that someone saves the file with the incorrect encoding and all characters get mangled.
On the other hand, using entity codes means you can't search effectively in the source code; you have to remember how each non ASCII character is encoded. Same goes for database content. Readability suffers,too.
I prefer to use Unicode directly and everyone on the team knows that files must be encoded in UTF-8.
where can I find mega list of all html entity characters?
http://www.w3schools.com does not cover all.
E.g. &# 145; &# 146; &# 147; &# 148; (values of these entities: ' & ")
are not included on this website.
For HTML there is a limited number of named entities (such as &), and Wikipedia and the W3C have lists of these.
Then there is the HTML syntax for a Unicode character reference (such as ), and for these you really just need to look at the Unicode standard.
It depends on HTML version, and a comprehensive answer would be rather long. But briefly, any Unicode character that is allowed in HTML (this depends on HTML version) can be written using a character reference of the form &#n; where n is is Unicode number in decimal, and also using &#xh; where h is is Unicode number in decimal. A limited set (a few hundred characters) can also be written as entity references like –, but their browser support varies – HTML5 novelties in this respect should be avoided, and only the HTML 4.01 entities have virtually universal support (in HTML; not necessarily in genuine XHTML).
The reference is undefined, though by HTML5 drafts there is strictly defined error handling that maps it to LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (as browsers generally do). There’s no reason to use it, but some HTML generating software emits such references.
I'm making a little website with german and french content. Some of the documents display text correctly, even though all umlauts are written as äöü and not with codes. Other docs need the codes but I can't find the difference between the documents.
When trying to google for an answer, I can only find tons of code references but no explanation why some docs don't need them.
Any HTML document (or any text document for that matter) is encoded to a certain encoding - this is a mapping between the characters and the values representing them. Different encodings mean different characters.
Many pages use UTF-8 a Unicode encoding and they state so either in the HTTP header or in a Meta tag (Content-Type) on the page itself - such pages can use most characters directly.
You should read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!).
1) charset-declaration in the html-code (meta)
2) the encoding of your documents.
For example... if you're working with UTF-8 and there is ONE document (for example a js-file) in ISO 8859-1 then some browsers will show you the site in ISO 8859-1 wich destroys your äöüß, ...
Because, per the HTML specification:
Authoring tools (e.g., text editors) may encode HTML documents in the character encoding of their choice
Some documents use an encoding (such as iso‑8859‑1, or Windows‑1252, or utf‑8) that can represent the character ä directly; others use an encoding (such as us‑ascii) that cannot, and therefore need to use the character entity reference ä.
Currently i am trying to look for the html entities for all the major currencies , i can easily get for USD , EURO , CAD, AUD and few more but i am having hard time getting entities for all other countries i have Bulgarian Lev (лв) , Chinese Renminbi (¥), Russian Ruble (руб), U.A. Emirates Dirhams (د.إ)
Everytime i enter them in my dropdown they are coming as ? sign , so is there any way around it and yes i am using correct meta charset, just trying to get html entities for them
Thanks
Characters showing up as � in UTF-8 data are an indication that the characters you're using are not proper UTF-8 ones.
This can happen when pasting UTF-8 characters into a HTML file that is ISO-8859-1 encoded, for example (this can be fixed by choosing the right encoding in the IDE or editor used). Another frequent reason is the use of a database connection that isn't UTF-8 all the way through.
If you fix that, you should be fine without needing HTML entities.
In addition to € for €, the entities for currencies in HTML 4.01 are £ for £ and ¥ for yen/yuan ¥. See HTML 4.01 list of entities.
(HTML 5 drafts add a long list of entities, but it’s worse than useless – generally not supported by browsers, and it gives you nothing that you could not achieve much safer by using numeric character references.)
For other currencies, you can use numeric character references, such as ₩for the won sign ₩. You just need to identify the character(s) used in the symbol by their Unicode numbers.
Alternatively, and usually better, use the characters directly, using a Unicode-enabled authoring tool, with document encoding properly set to and declared as utf-8. But it is possible to use “escapes” for all currency symbols.
You can see at http://symbologic.info/currency.htm a very large list of currencies with Country, Currency Unit Symbol, ISO and HTML Entity Code, HTML Decimal and Hex Code. A smaller list is at http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_currency.asp
The html page encoding set in the needs to match the encodig of the combobox values (that you can load by ajax). You can set it by meta tag like:
Remember that utf-8 is the default encoding for html 5 and ISO-8859-1 is the default encoding for html 4