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Certain special characters are represented in HTML by a name or a number, referred to as an entity. HTML includes entity names for characters such as the copyright symbol (©) the ampersand (&), and the registered-trademark symbol (®). Each entity has both a name (such as —) and a numeric equivalent (such as —).
Tip: HTML uses the angle brackets <> in its code, but you may need to express the special characters for greater than or less than without Dreamweaver interpreting them as code. In this case, use > for greater than (>) and ⁢ for less than (<).
Unfortunately, many browsers (especially older browsers, and browsers other than Navigator and Internet Explorer) don't properly display many of the named entities. Most browsers display most of the commonly used numeric entities, but remembering an entity's number is harder than remembering its name.
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