Special character display

Occasionally web site owners will find they need to display a non-standard letter character on a web page. Offline this is easy enough by going to the Insert option of your text application, but on a web page, it’s a different matter.

The most frequently used special characters the small to micro-sized business will want to use on their site are the™ trademark and © copyright symbols, neither of which usually put in an appearance on keyboards. To display these symbols, without resorting to an image, it is necessary to code them directly onto the page using either a name code or a hex code.

If you don’t have one of the newer web site building software packages such as Dreamweaver MX, use one of the following codes into your page code to insert trademark and copyright.

Symbol              Name Code          Hex Code 
Trademark ™     ™                 #8482;  
Copyright ©       ©                 #169;  

You can find the name and hex codes for other special characters at About.com