HTML question

[rm]

- Freaky control characters showing up in Firefox on Macs.
- They show up on nothing else -- not in Safari, not on PCs.

What the hell should I be looking for that will make this stop?

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I've never had to deal with that before. How do I do code for just plain old ampersand?

I bet that will fix a chunk of 'em.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

The XML code is certainly & (& amp ;).

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay. This is me again, super not getting this.

I know you just made a clever joke.

But I do not understand it.

If I want the screen to display: &

Do I just type a: &

Or do I type something else?

[dipping_sauce]

It's preferable to type & amp ; (without the spaces).

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Ampersands need to be encoded. & amp ; (without the spaces) is syntactically correct in ANY form of HTML. Ampersand alone never has been.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

& should give you the & safely.

[rm.livejournal.com]

ahah! Thank you!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

...yeah, I don't know enough HTML to show up the XML code without LJ automatically parsing it into the entity it should be. D'oh!

[misch.livejournal.com]

There isn't a good way to do that.

&lt; for <
&gt; for >

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

De rien :)