Task 18: Inserting Character Entities

There are about 100 keys on your keyboard, but with all those choices, how do you type something obscure like the copyright symbol (©)? In a word processor, you insert a symbol from some menu or dialog box. In HTML, these symbols are referred to as character entities or special characters. Instead of tags, character entities are rendered numerically, beginning with an ampersand (&) and pound sign (#) and ending with a semicolon. This task shows you how to render a number of the more common character entities.