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Less Than and Greater Than Signs in HTML

jim.richmond — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:52:47 +0000

In HTML, you can not use the less than or greater than signs. You must use a special syntax to represent these reserved characters in HTML. These symbols are written as Character Entities:

The less than sign(<): <
The greater than sign(>): >

The non breaking space( ):
The ampersand(&): &
The copyright symbo(©): ©

Additional Reference

Using Tabs in a WordPress Post

jim.richmond — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:16:19 +0000

Here is an example of using tab characters in a blog post.

To get this:

Column1	Column2
A	Apple
B	Banana
C	Coconut

You can copy and paste this:



Column1 	 Column2

A 	 Apple

B 	 Banana

C 	 Coconut

The trick to this is using the ‘

’ tag and the html entity code for tab: ‘ ’.

Another option is to use html table tags however I find this method easier if I only have a few columns.

NoWrap in ASP.Net

jim.richmond — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:26:03 +0000

If you want your table column to not wrap in ASP.Net, you can use the NoWrap property in the tag like so:


 content

This makes the code xhtml compliant and prevents warnings in the source view of designer in Visual Studio. Normally you could just specify a nowrap attribute by itself in plain html.

Or the CSS equivalent of setting nowrap:


 content

Again, using the first option will prevent warnings in source view.

Taking Shortcuts with Internal Style Sheets

jim.richmond — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:13:24 +0000

As simple as it is, I can never remember the syntax for defining a block of css within html. It is of course better practice to put your css in a seperate file and reference it. However, here is sample snippet to define internal style(s):

PLAIN TEXT

HTML:

type="text/css">
body {color: blue}
a {color: blue; font-weight:bold;}
#id_comment {width: 100px;}

And if you change your mind, here is a sample with the css in its own file:

PLAIN TEXT

HTML:

rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="thestyle.css" />

Here is a css reference.

Why are Internal Style Sheets helpful?
If you are a developer and you like taking shortcuts. Your html designer is not going to approve, but just tell him that it's a beta.
Speaking on which, It's also good for testing. Most recently, I was using a third party Django comments module that had some style that I wanted adjusted. Instead of hunting down the source, the quick test was to define the needed style adjustments right before the tag.