Chapter 14. ADDING SPECIALIZED MARKUP
Add Special Characters to Your Page
XHTML supports a set of character entities, which are codes that represent special characters that will be interpreted by the browser to display non-standard characters. The syntax to create any of these entities is to use an ampersand, followed by the code for the character, followed by a semicolon.
These entities fall into three main categories. The first contains a single entity, , which represents a non-breaking space. As browsers will ignore consecutive whitespace characters, this entity lets you force additional space as needed. The second category contains four characters which, if typed in directly, would potentially confuse the browser. They are the two angle ...
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