Escape Characters

Some characters are used to display HTML tags, like the < and >. If you want to have these characters displayed in the browser, and not interpreted as HTML, then you need to use a special code. These codes are known as escape characters.

Many normal characters can also be written in HTML using escape characters, but these don't need to be used. You can write most of them out normally. Though, if you want to show special symbols like the copyright and trademark symbols, you can use escape characters to accomplish this.

< = &lt;

> = &gt;

& = &amp;

© = &copy;

® = &reg;

™ = &trade;

Notice that each of these codes start with an ampersand (&), and end with a semi-colon (;).