Im trying to display the &
character as its written. But it keeps converting to special symbol in html.
Example : shoutcast song title
Chas & Dave
will displayed as Chas
.
Anything after the &
wont display.
Im trying to display the &
character as its written. But it keeps converting to special symbol in html.
Example : shoutcast song title
Chas & Dave
will displayed as Chas
.
Anything after the &
wont display.
You should write &
as specified here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
&
has a special meaning in HTML, it means the start of an 'entity'. To output a & itself, use the entity &
. There are 5 entities common to HTML and XML, &
, <
(<), >
(>), "
(") and '
('), although the last two are often only necessary in attribute values.
HTML has many others, a common one is
, which is short for 'non-breaking space', often used to force a table cell to display.