Rick Merrill wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote:
The following html is supposed to display
a chevron followed by the headline.
>Plymouth pays high price
Instead, it displays a box containing small characters "276f"
What character encoding or what causes this?
<a style=3D"font-size: 13px;" href=3D"http://links5=
.boston.com/ihvgbvtpmhhwzgdgwbckvwzkptwdztpqqcfzzcycgndn_frysjjbhs.ht=
ml">Plymouth pays high price for foreign wars</a>
If you are the one writing this HTML, there is no ">" shown in your
sample after the
<a ...> tag of the anchor element. IOW, you want:
<a style=3D"font-size: 13px;" href=3D"http://links5=
.boston.com/ihvgbvtpmhhwzgdgwbckvwzkptwdztpqqcfzzcycgndn_frysjjbhs.ht=
ml">> Plymouth pays high price for foreign wars</a>
See the > between the closing greater-than and the word Plymouth?
Conversely a
< is used if you want to display a less-than "<" in HTML. [1]
Check the validity of your HTML here:
http://validator.w3.org/
and for your CSS here:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
If this is not some HTML that you wrote, please provide a URL to the
page in question.
[1. Yes, I know that greater-thans normally do not need to be
encoded... ]
Right. It is Not my code. It is from an email,
and I did not know how to put a URL to that, nor
did I want to post the whole deal in this group.
Ah, an email. That explains the "3D" which I believe is a line break in
an HTML email, and not related to your question.
but SM2.4.2 under Win 7 shows it "correctly"
while SM2.4.2 under Win XP shows it 'weird'.
I have 2.4.1 (Ubuntu Linux).
The 'style=3D' looked pretty strange to me.
I have made copy of the HTML available here:
http://batco.tv/AccessBolton_files/docs/The%20Boston%20Globe%27s%20Daily%20Headlines.html
or here:
http://tinyurl.com/3qrawe7
I see the styled ">" in SeaMonkey browser, Firefox, and Opera. It has
nothing to do with the actual anchor element (the <a ...>) but is in the
HTML just *before* the link.
<div> ❯
That character entity symbol is known as the:
HEAVY RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT
and is a character in one of the symbol fonts, such as Wingdings,
Dingbats, or such. Search the source of your email for that entity code.
It can also be displayed using: &#U+2771;
Now that we have that solved, I can't say for sure how it would display
in an *email* ... I do my best to read all email in Plain Text. :-)
--
-bts
-This space for rent, but the price is high
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