Hi,

I'm setting up a table which will can be sorted by clicking on one of
the headers, and I'd like to display the sort order (ascending or
descending) by drawing a little arrow next to the column name.  I
thought about using an image, but of course it wouldn't scale with the
text.  Is there a good technique for drawing a text arrow in most
browsers, which degrades nicely if it can't be displayed?

I found a page which shows some HTML entity codes, including the arrows, at
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html

I tried ↑ and ↓ and they work great in Safari 1.2.1 and
Firefox 0.9.1, but the page says browser support for those entities is
generally very poor.  I don't have a PC nearby to test with, and I
have no idea what a screen reader would do.

Am I out of luck?

Thanks,

-- 
Jason Anderson
http://www.thenewjhp.com
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