A simple guide to l33tifying your posts with HTML entities

[Electrode]

Every now and then, I get a PM asking how I add things like arrows and daggers to my posts. It suprises me how few of you know about HTML entities.

Anyway, I've decided to inform the uninformed by making this post. If anyone remembers the CSS link fad, you'll know what I expect will happen...

Just stick these "codes" wherever you want a symbol to appear. Note that you can't use them in titles or sigs.

ARROWS:
↑ ↑
↓ ↓
← ←
→ →
↔ ↔

SYMBOLS:
♥ ♥
♦ ♦
♠ ♠
♣ ♣
∴ ∴
† †
‡ ‡
◊ ◊
∞ ∞

LETTEREY THINGS:
∀ ∀
∃ ∃
Œ Œ
× ×

You can find a more complete set here. And that's just named entities, wait'll you try Unicode...

EDIT: Unicode is done thusly:
♖ ♖

 

[Confused]

& larr; will come in handy instead of

<----- Nef

I can do

&larr; Nef

/me waits for FT to prevent the use of named entities/unicode


Confused

 

[AFB]

Great post, thank you for the information. :beer:

 

[Joker81]

There &exist a dumb post &forall posts.

Sorry had to do it since im in a Math class dealing with proofs and stuff.

 

[Electrode]

&#x2603;

 

[DaFinn]

&hearts;

 

[Analog]

cute

 

[skace]

Hello, My name is Sk&forall;&OElig;

?¨?¨
?ª?«
?©?©

 

[Electrode]

These symbols might be useful for the P&N crowd, if they work:

&#21325; &#21325;
&#x262D; &#x262D;

EDIT: Inflamatory links added.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

lots of them coming up as boxes for me.

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
lots of them coming up as boxes for me.

Here's what they'd look like if your web browser was standards-compliant:

First post
Inflamatory post

 

[Chiboy]

Cool, thanks for the info.

&uarr;

 

[MainFramed]

&uarr;
will come in hand instead of ^ for bumpage

 

[PunDogg]

&larr; thanks you for your post

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

The truly l33t only use ASCII. And using EBCDIC is cheating.

 

[MarklarMarklar]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Great post, thank you for the information. :beer:

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Electrode
These symbols might be useful for the P&N crowd, if they work:

? &#21325;
? &#x262D;

EDIT: Inflamatory links added.

The first one is not a swastika, if you were wondering.

 

[911paramedic]

:brokenheart: <--must have done something wrong, my heart is broken down the middle.

 

[Electrode]

One more &uarr;

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: Electrode

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
lots of them coming up as boxes for me.

Here's what they'd look like if your web browser was standards-compliant:

First post
Inflamatory post

So IE6 isn't standards compliant? Not a surprise.

 

[SunnyD]

Cool, now I can say &harr; &harr; &harr; and nobody will have a clue.

 

[ElFenix]

color links > entities

 

[Hammer]

&#8593;
sock-sniffer

 

[rh71]

&larr; always uses &not;

 

[KeyserSoze]

Can someone PLEASE show me how to do the single character "flip off", haha. I love that. Some guy has it here in his signature with a smiley face in between. And I'm teh dumb.




KeyserSoze