24 Dec
2008
24 Dec
'08
6:35 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Are you asking how to get < and > rendered as
displayed text?
Try:
...the <BOLD> tag will...
(I'm not sure how I know this, I can't find it in the html reference I use;
which begs the question of whether it's actually part of the standard.)
< is the "less than" character
> is the "greater than" character
how would you get HTML to display:
"< is the "less than" character"
would I have to "escape" the ampersands?
&lt;
<pre> , </pre> are fun.
Is there an inconsistency with whether a browser will display special
chatacters within a <pre> block? Do some browsers display them literally,
while others apply the <pre> ONLY to whitespace and line breaks?
I have seen at least one browser where I could get away with:
<pre>
x = <
if (x < y) . . .
</pre>
I guess that "modern" HTML has evolved to the point where one MUST use an
HTML generating program, and no more tampering with the raw HTML; just as
"nobody" writes Postscript.
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