Heads up! To view this whole video, sign in with your Courses account or enroll in your free 7-day trial. Sign In Enroll

HTML Basics

Well done!

You have completed HTML Basics!

Sign up for Treehouse Back to Library

HTML Entities and Reserved Characters

4:36 with Guil Hernandez

Certain characters are reserved for use in HTML code only. If you use reserved characters in your content, the browser will interpret them as HTML code, and the characters will not appear in your content as expected.

Content Snippets

<pre>
  &lt;div&gt;
    This is a div...
    &lt;p&gt;This paragraph is nested&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;          
</pre>

Resources

Related Discussions

Have questions about this video? Start a discussion with the community and Treehouse staff.

Sign up

    Related Discussions

    Have questions about this video? Start a discussion with the community and Treehouse staff.

    Sign up

    If you use reserved characters in your content, the browser will interpret them 0:00
    as HTML code and the characters will not appear in your content as expected. 0:02
    For example, the less than and 0:06
    greater than symbols are part of the HTML syntax itself. 0:08
    As you know, they are used to define opening and closing HTML tags. 0:12
    So if we use them as content in a webpage, 0:16
    the browser will think that they are part of an HTML tag. 0:19
    For instance, if I type a less than symbol in front of the text in the h1, 0:22
    the browser now thinks that the less than symbol and the right angle bracket of 0:27

    You need to sign up for Treehouse in order to download course files.

    Sign up

      You need to sign up for Treehouse in order to set up Workspace

      Sign up