WD97: HTML Alternate Text Displayed with Object

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Certain characters have special meaning and are considered reserved in HTML documents. The following table lists each of the supported characters specified in the numeric and special graphic entity set, along with its name, syntax, and description.

This list is derived from ISO Standard 8879;1986/ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN; however, HTML does not provide support for the entire entity set. Only the entities listed are supported.

     Glyph    Name    Syntax    Description
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   <        lt      <      Less than sign
   >        gt      >      Greater than sign
   &        amp     &amp;     Ampersand
   "        quot    &quot     Double quote sign;
				

NOTE: The entity names are used in HTML, are always prefixed by ampersand (&), and are always followed by a semicolon (;). They represent particular graphic characters that have special meanings in places in the mark-up language, or may not be part of the character set available to you.