How to display CopyRight Symbol

Character Entities References are the way you put special letters, numbers and symbols on the web page. A character entity reference consists of an ampersand (&), followed by a pound sign (#), the number of the character entity, and finishing with a semi-colon (;). Alternately, for some characters you can put ampersand, the name of the character (but no # sign), followed by a semi-colon.

For example, you could put a copyright symbol on the page like this:

©

The copyright symbol is named “copy”, so you could also add the character like this:

©

The names of character entities are not as well supported by the browsers as the numbers, so it’s best to use the numbers.

Common Mistakes When Using Character Entities

• Forgetting to add the closing semi-colon. Character entity references work in many situations without the semi-colon, but not in others. It’s easier to always put the closing semi-colon than to keep track of the situations where it’s not required.
• Forgetting to use the # sign for numeric references. Without the # it’s not a numeric reference, so the browser will look for a character named “38″ (for example) which there isn’t any.
• Putting the names in the wrong case. Names are case sensitive. Mostly they are in lower-case, but not always. For example,
  Å

  ( Å ) is the uppercase version of

  å

  ( å ). Of course, when using characters like that it’s probably better to use the numeric versions anyway (

  Å

  and

  å

  ).