Re: HTML Code for "Greater Than or Equals to" Symbol

["Steven J. Owens" <puff -at- netcom -dot- com>]

Ridder, Fred writes:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:28:20 -0500 Leslie Grimm asked
> >I apologize if this is a little off topic ...
> >Does anyone know if there is an HTML code for the "greater than or equals
> >to" symbol?  If there is one, I have not been able to find it.
> 
> A very useful resource with a wealth of information on all things HTML 
> is the Web Design Group (WDG) website.  Among other things, this site
> provides a chart (in several forms) of the ISO 8859-1 character set that 
> is specified in the HTML standard. Check out this character set for 
>     http:\\www.htmlhelp.com\reference\charset
> According to the charts and other information on this website, there is 
> no entity in this official character set for the greater-than-or-equal-to
> symbol.

     Hm, I don't know offhand if it's "official" or not, but there are two
tags to do this:

          less than (<) is "&lt;"
          greater than (>) is "&gt;"

     The semi-colon is part of the tag.  The quotes aren't.  These
tags are kinda necessary, since otherwise it's impossible to put
examples of HTML tags in a web page.  Since some of the earliest web
pages were on how to write web pages, I suspect they ran into this
issue quite early on :-).

Steven J. Owens
puff -at- netcom -dot- com