[bcab] Re: html coding explanation

Hi Colin,
 
The &ldquo and &rdquo are two of a set of special characters, known as
entities, defined in HTML to make life easier than having to remember a
hexadecimal code which would otherwise have to be used.
 
In the case of the two entities which are in the line you have given us,
they represent a left double quote and a right double quote.
 
The ampersand at the start of each indicates that the following name is
an entity and will need to be interpreted by the browser as such.
 
There are many entities which represent special characters and are used
because there actual character can not be typed in straight text since
they would be considered part of the HTML mark-up rather than text to be
displayed or because there is no equivalent on a standard keyboard.
 
You can find a list of entities for HTML 4 at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html

 

Please excuse the poor explanation, it's too early in the day for me to
think more clearly.

 

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From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Colin Fowler
Sent: 24 February 2009 07:48
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] html coding explanation


 
Hi,
 
I wonder if someone could just explain the following coding to me.
 
&ldquo;the commencement date&rdquo;
 
I am somewhat confused as I haven't seen any reference to this in any of
the tutorials I have been working from, and don't understand exactly
what, how or why, this would be used.
 
Thankss in anticipation.
 
Colin Fowler
 
 

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