# Small correction on tutorial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-correction-on-tutorial/566>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 16, 1999, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-correction-on-tutorial/566 "1999-12-16T01:24:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 1999, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-correction-on-tutorial/566/1 "1999-12-16T01:24:00Z")

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I noticed that some of you put the plus sign into the smiley codes, which is sort of my fault because I didn’t make it clear enough. Here’s the right way to do those faces…

🙂 = 🙂 happy  
☹ = ☹ sad  
😃 = 😃 glad (use a capital D)  
😉 = 😉 wink  
:o = :o embarrased (use a small o)

Hope that clears things up.

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-correction-on-tutorial/566/2 "1999-12-23T06:45:00Z")

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OK **Louie** How the blazes did you do that? You know what I mean; showing :+) without the plus and not showing as a smiley?

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Virtually yours,

DrMatrix

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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-correction-on-tutorial/566/3 "1999-12-23T07:38:00Z")

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My secret: [I just used the codes for each symbol, check out the source code to see it.

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…and remember, duct tape fixes _all_ your problems, big and small.

[url=“[http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/19991103-2-000302.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/19991103-2-000302.html)”]Fun with HTML (tutoral) : The True Sequal]([http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special\_characters/](http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/)"\>HTML special character codes[/url) [Give someone an FU](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000255.html)

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-correction-on-tutorial/566/4 "1999-12-24T06:35:00Z")

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You mean like this:  
&#58) = 🙂

Thanks.

BTW, showing it like this makes it so much easier to understand what to type without a long explanation.

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Virtually yours,

DrMatrix