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Sandra



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 3:15 am    Post subject: the < and > Reply with quote
the < and > cuts off the comments.. how do you fix this?
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Sigg3



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 9:41 am    Post subject: html entities Reply with quote
You shouldn't use those two in a post or text in the design as such. Use the html code for them:
Code:
Symbol: <
code: <
Meaning: Less than

Symbol: >
code: >
Meaning: Greater than

The html-tag Less than opens for a variable, i.e <strong>this is strong txt in HTML</strong>. If you, i.e write <<This page is the best>> it can produce various kinds of results but mostly it will turn up blank, because both "html variables" are closed (with the >>). If you, however, write "< blah, blah bla." Then the variable isn't closed, and it will most often mess up your page.

Most blogging tools doesn't OPEN the tag, instead of < they put < and the add a > like that, "closing" what hasn't been opened, which mostly works.

In addition, if you want a quotation-styled double tag; <<Title>>, use the « and » instead.

Read more:
W3 Schools - HTML tutorial
HTML 4.01 Entities Reference
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