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Special HTML Symbols and ALT Key Symbols

Leaving notes inside HTML (That won't show up on a Browser Screen).

If you are just starting out in HTML, you may find it useful to leave notes in your HTML code for future reference. Unfortunately, these will show up as text if they are not entered properly.

To do this, surround the text in question with <!-- and -->
For example: <!--I want to remember how this works-->

Special HTML Symbols

As you likely know by now, there are certain symbols that are part of HTML encoding, and/or not in the regular keyboard. These are copyright, trademark, and registered symbols, and ALT key symbols, extra spaces, ",&, >, and <. Sometimes these will show up if you just type them, but more often than not, the browser will assume that they are part of an incoplete HTML statement, and either ignore them, or otherwise glitch the page. In the case of spaces, HTML will simply ignore them unless you are using pre-formated text.