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