So I found a reason to post the “>” on a webpage, but how do I get it to appear without the browser thinking I’m using it as part of a tag?
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Two minutes. Jeez we’re getting sloppy in the new year.
try “>” (without quotes) for “>”.
… and “<” for “<”
edit: I’m assuming you’re editing directly the code. Otherwise some advanced editors may treat the input as text and display “>” instead.
Awesome, thanks guys! (and two minutes, wow?)
You have to put a semicolon on the end to make it valid: >
For anyone to whom it may not be immediately obvious, “gt” stands for “greater than” and “lt” stands for “less than.”
I know this has been answered already but I found this amusing.
By posting this question you put “>” on a website. You could have viewed source to answer your own question.
This is probably a dumb question, but what if I wanted to display > on a website?
On preview, and looking at the source, it appears I’d have to type >
So, am I correct in assuming the & means “I’m about to give you a special character”, and ; means “All done giving you the special character,”? (And that amp is used instead of & to display an &, and it’s done after the initial &?)
Yeah. These doohickeys are called HTML entities and there’s a whole bunch of them.
Cool. Is there an easy way to use that form when posting on the Dope? For example, I’d use the Greek alphabet a lot more if I just had to type “β”, but that won’t show up as a beta.
vBulletin automatically escapes &'s, meaning your entities like β will get converted to β.
But: there’s an exception for ordinal entities of the form &#NNNN where NNNN is the Unicode codepoint of any character. So you can use &# 914 (without the space) to make Β.
Σ λ ϖ ‰ ϑ ω ψ etc.
ETA: The chart I linked above will show you the ordinal entities if you mouse over any character.