Escape Sequences

Represent special characters on your HTML page. Using an Escape Sequence is the way to do it. Want to add a specific number of spaces, the Spanish tilde, Russian or Greek alphabet characters?

If you wanted to be really weird, you could write this whole page using escape sequences for ALL of the characters.

Question: How do I add a specific number of spaces to text?
Answer: Use the escape sequence for a space character. String 3 escape sequences together to get 3 spaces -->
Question: How can I show code that the browser won't automatically translate?
Answer: Use the escape sequence that tells the browser NOT to translate the enclosed stuff. <XMP>stuff</XMP>
Question: How can I show the left and right angle brackets on my page?
Answer: Use the escape sequence for the left bracket, "<"
and the sequence for the right bracket, ">"
Look at a "Tables of Escape Sequences".
Or here, "ISO Latin 1 Character Entities and HTML Escape Sequence Table".

For examples, see the Page Source code for the table at the top right of my main page. Or see the added spaces at the top of the graphics experiment page.

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since 2/24/1998