- Some characters like the < character,
have a special meaning in HTML,
and therefore cannot be used in the text.
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- An entity is a fancy term for a symbol. Several symbols such as copyright,
trademark, or foreign cash symbols exist outside of the ones you see on your keyboard.
In order to display them. In order to display these characters, you need to know 4 parts.
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- In HTML we use less than and greater than characters to create tags,
so to use them on your web site you will need entities.
A Character Entity has three parts:
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- Each begins with an ampersand - &
- An entity name or a # and an entity number
- And finally a semicolon - ;
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