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HTML - Total Newbie Question - Encoding 'special' Characters
I'm using Amaya to write some really simple HTML. If I insert any characters in the range 128-255 (e.g. the degree symbol, 176, or non-breaking space, 160) then instead of embedding ' ' or '°' into the document it actually puts in the byte sequence 0 194 0 176 (degree symbol) or 0 194 0 160 (non-breaking space). In hex these sequences look like 00 C2 00 B0 or 00 C2 00 A0. So it appears that 194 (xC2) is some kind of escape character. However I can find no documentation anywhere which mentions that this is valid HTML - can anyone point me at some?
Mike Similar TutorialsI know all the easy ones like hearts and spades, but i want to do the really cool ones like crowns and clouds for myspace. This site has them: http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ but it only has the numbers and i need the words [ex. it has &1321442; instead of &blahh; ]. And myspace only accepts the word codes so can anyone either tell me how to convert the numbers into letters or give me some help on this?! -The actualy characters i want are stars and crowns Hello, total newbie here so please be gentle. The start of my source code is: <head> <title>INSERT TITLE HERE</title> <meta name= "description" content="INSERT DESCRIPTION HERE"> <meta name="keywords" content="INSERT KEYWORDS HERE"> </head> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-image: url(.. What I am finding is when I load the page and save it via FTP to the hosting server, everything before the line <style type="text/css"> disappears totally from the souce code... What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Pete Ok, newbie here... I have two questions about background pics... I downloaded an image which I want to use as a background pic. The pic is located in the same folder as the my html script (Wordpad). I can get it to display but the pic is "broken up"; the image basically cuts off on the right, and then starts over. How can I fix it? This is a page for my sister-in-law; I wanted to email her a sample page but when I test-emailed it to myself, the background pic didn't display. I am pretty sure it has to do with the path; any recommendations? Thanks so much for your help! S. I have a problem with IE6 and 7 not rendering a special character, the double up arrow, "& u A r r ;" <a rel="nofollow" href="#top">⇑</a> content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> I am using the special character as link text to get the user to the top of a very, very long page with a single click. The character renders properly in FF, OP and SA. To my dismay, I just discovered that IE renders it as a box on top of the link underline. Is there any simple way, css, magic, etc., that I can get this character to render properly? The single up arrow renders, but looks anemic, and I don't want to have "Top" appearing at the end of every paragraph. (I don't want the search engines to think I am stuffing the keyword "Top".) Two single up arrows looks strange. I'm afraid to use an image since I could encounter position problems with different browsers. While suggestions for alternative design solutions are welcome, I am really after a technical a way to use the double up arrow in IE. The page: http://www.iaps.com/list-of-internet...ns-199010.html Thanks Hi, I am currently doing some work on our companies website. As part of this we want to add product codes to keywords to improve rankings in Google, however most of our codes include a forward slash (/), e.g. CC/250S. Does anyone know if the forward slash is a valid symbol in the keywords field, or would this make cause problems in the code? I am reading this: Quote: Another important special character you should know about is the & character. If you'd like to have an & in your html content, use the character entity & instead of the & character itself. I don't understand the entire paragraph above, can any give an example of the above or explain in another way please? I recently transferred my blog from 1and1 to hostgator, and all my apostrophes have been replaced with � How can this be fixed? Are there special characters like hearts or...whatever that can be done in html. Here is my issue: I'm loading an XML that contains special characters (like French characters) and they are not displaying properly. My XML file is encoded in UTF-8. My charset is set to UTF-8 in my HTML document. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> When I take out the charset completely (don't declare character encoding at all), it displays properly?! (Ack!) I want my HTML to validate properly because I'm attempting to write clean XHTML, but this is leaving me a bit confused. Can anyone explain what is happening? Why does it display correctly when I don't specify a charset? Hiya, I can add a hidden like this to my form... Code: <input type="hidden" name="height" value="197cm" /> But what if I want to change 197cm to 6' 5" - i.e., so it contains apostrophes and speech marks... Code: <input type="hidden" name="height" value="6' 5"" /> doesn't work due to the extra speech mark, so how do I solve? Thanks, James hi guys, I have this code he Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />
<title>Under construction</title>
</head>
<body style="background-color:#121212">
<div style="background: url(under_construction.jpg) no-repeat center top ;
height: 1024px;
margin: auto;">
</div>
</body>
</html>
the image under_construction.jpg is basically the page itself, it has a size of 1680x1024. As of right now the page doesn't adjust automatically to the users screen. Please help me change the code so that it'll adjust automatically to the user screen I am stumped finding the right decoder for this. For example, a string like "farmer's" obviously wiould decode to "farmer's". I can't figure out what this type of encoding is called. I'm trying to find the right decoder for it. (Searching on punctuation symbols doesn't work too well for me.) When I put it between html tags, it shows up with the coding, so my browser isn't decoding it. Can someone steer me in the right direction? Thanks i am new to html, and recently started working with css. i made some buttons in my menu, and am trying to change the appearance when i rollover with the mouse. my question is if it is possible to change the appearance of one button, when i rollover a different one. for example, all the buttons are normally brown, except the link to the page i am currently on is green. when i rollover the "contact" button, i want it to turn green, and the current green button, "home" to turn back to brown, even though the user hasn't clicked on the link yet. then even if there are no mouse clicks, when the user moves the mouse back off of the "contact" link, it goes back to brown, and the original "home" button goes back to green. i know i am probably making this more confusing than it needs to be, but not sure how exactly to explain it. thanks in advance... Ok so I am having a problem trying to figure out how to get my drop down box values into my text box. Any help would be appreciated. Here is my code so far. DROP DOWN BOX: (works) <select name="Bands" style="width: 142px"> <option selected="selected">Bands</option> <option value="Creed">Creed</option> <option value="Moop">Moop</option> <option value="ESB">ESB</option> <option value="Metallica">Metallica</option> </select><br /> TEXT BOX (I want to put the value from the text box after Fav_Band =) <div class="style3"> <textarea name="BAND" style="width: 746px; height: 66px" class="style4">Fav_Band="" </textarea></div> <br /> Sorry, that my title is not more precise, i just don't know how to describe or search for what Im looking for How do I make a sort of rectangle/shape in a specific color, and write on top of it? (I have just learned the div-position tag, so I guess I'll use that for positioning...) Thanks for your time! I've create an easy html page and I wanted to attach it to my website. But no one link doesn't to that new page. The page's name is, christmas-ornaments.html I think maybe the problem is this symbol, - Hope to get your advaice, friends. _________________________________ Hey y'all... I am not very well-versed in html use at all but have a good question for all of you that are. I am in need of being able to somehow "read" from the background html source the physical location (no, not the URL, the location on the page itself) of hyperlinks and data entry fields (both location, length, etc.) on web pages. I really do not even know if this is possible. Am I an idiot or is this possible for most web pages? Many thanks for your responses in advance..... |
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