If you noticed, in many of the web pages used in this tutorial, we
write out tags such as <B>.
You may ask yourself, how does the web browser know that I want to
display the bold tag itself and not make the text next to it bold?
Well, the answer is that the web browser does not know. I have to
tell it.
Specifically, I use the < to represent the < sign and
> sign to represent the > sign.
Consider the following code:
<B>This text is not going to be bold, but is
going to display as the tag itself.<B>
<P>
<B>This text is bold however</B>
When displayed on the web, it would look like this:
<B>This text is not going to be bold, but is
going to display as the tag itself.</B>
This text is bold however
Some of the special characters have a numeric value as well as a
character value. For example, the less than sign can be written either
at < or <
There are many such special characters that must be defined with
such syntax because there is no way for the web browser to recognize
them otherwise.
The following table goes over the list of special characters.
