HTML's Special Characters

Quick reference

• 00:05 In this video, I want to talk about special characters.
• 00:08 There's lots of different special characters that you may want to
• 00:11 use that are different than basic text.
• 00:14 For instance, at the bottom of most pages, there's a little copyright symbol, right.
• 00:19 It's that c, copyright c, with a circle around it.
• 00:22 Well, how would you do that with html?
• 00:24 Well you use something called a special character.
• 00:27 And html handles special characters the same way depending on the character.
• 00:31 To do it, you just and sign and a semi colon and whatever is between these
• 00:37 two things that's the special character in this case we want to do the copy right.
• 00:41 It's just copy, C-O-P-Y.
• 00:44 So I can put copyright, John Elder all rights reserved.
• 00:51 Whatever.
• 00:52 Go ahead and save that.
• 00:53 Come back here and click reload we get this little copyright thing.
• 00:57 So I think the trademark is just trade.
• 01:02 T-R-A-D-E.
• 01:03 Click save and reload and we get this little trademark, TM.
• 01:07 There's R, it's reg and it gets a trademark that's pending.
• 01:14 So those are some of the special characters.
• 01:16 Now, there are other things, as well.
• 01:17 For instance, let's say we wanted to enter these bracket guides.
• 01:25 All right.
• 01:26 We can't because the web browser will convert these to HTML, right.
• 01:33 So if we wanna use them, we use the special characters and that is &lt,
• 01:40 This is stuff &gt.
• 01:44 So we're gonna save this and hit reload.
• 01:47 Boom, we get this left one and right one and the LT that stands for left and
• 01:51 GT stands for right, not really, I just made that up, I don't know what they stand
• 01:56 for, I remember left is LT because It's left you would think this would be RT.
• 02:01 Actually what is RT.
• 02:02 Let's see, hit save, probably nothing, yeah nothing.
• 02:06 But anyways, that's that.
• 02:08 Another one that's sort of the same is lets see R-A-Q-U-O put
• 02:14 that in give us our at sign and let's do the same thing over here.
• 02:20 Only this one, we'll do L-A-Q-U-O.
• 02:24 And I think oops.
• 02:26 L-A-Q-U-O.
• 02:27 And I think this stands for left and right.
• 02:30 We save this, we get this double.
• 02:33 These little things and you see sometimes those are popular with blog posts.
• 02:37 If you want to click the next blog post, you might do that.
• 02:41 There's lots of special characters like that, you can head over to Google and
• 02:44 look up a chart of special characters, there's probably thousands.
• 02:47 The copyright is the big one that you are going to use alot.
• 02:49 You might use the trademark.
• 02:50 You might use those RAQUO and LAQUO.
• 02:54 But yeah, special characters, any time you come across a weird symbol that won't show
• 02:59 up in your browser, or only if you just type it in, or maybe it's not even on you
• 03:03 keyboard and you can't type it in, it's probably gonna be a special character.
• 03:07 And you just need to go look up a special character chart to figure out what it is.
• 03:10 So those are special characters.
• 03:12 In the next video, I wanna talk about comments.

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