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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write an HTML Element

My name is André and when i write it in preview apears strange simbols how can i resolve this?

My name apears like Andr?@ Alves

2 Answers

The problem here comes from how the accent over the e is interpreted in your name André. It's seen by the editor as a special character so in order for it to be recognized you'd need to type the specific html code for it

So your html would look like this

André

Thank you so much!

Anything outside the regular keyboard icons(and some of the ones on there as well) are sometimes seen as special characters depending on your code editor.

http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html

The above link is a fairly comprehensive list of the html codes for special characters.