OT: HTML queries (was Re: PDF datasheets)

It's been a while since I coded in HTML by hand, but I believe you would have to use &amp;&lt; I couldn't code javascript by hand, as I don't know the language at all well and I hate any language that uses == instead of =. I mean how would you do <=>, would it be <==>?? Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk --- On Thu, 25/12/08, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> Subject: Re: OT: HTML queries (was Re: PDF datasheets) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: Thursday, 25 December, 2008, 2:35 AM On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Brent Hilpert wrote: reference I use; standard.) &lt; is the "less than" character &gt; is the "greater than" character how would you get HTML to display: "&lt; is the "less than" character" would I have to "escape" the ampersands? &amp;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 = &lt; 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. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com