HTML Entity Character Lookup. Created by Left Logic Using HTML entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are validated.
However, often finding the right entity code requires scanning through 250 rows of characters. This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c. Features Search for entity characters based on how they look (taken from the W3C list of entities) Switch between standard and compressed views Copy the HTML entity to the clipboard Add your own keyword terms and characters to entities Settings stored in a browser cookie Available as a Firefox plugin - thanks to Yining To reset the keywords, clear your cookies for this page and the default keyword dictionary.
How it works The lookup searches the html entities for matches to the searched character based on how your character looks. There's no clever logic behind this, only the most powerful computer known to man - man's own brain. How to clean up your HTML. If you work with HTML a lot, it’s worth keeping an eye on the many free, targeted utilities you can use to work more efficiently.
There are utilities that automatically help you clean up your HTML (they can take, say, an off-kilter blog page and render it pristine again), convert HTML to text and vice-versa, or do focused tasks such as removing JavaScript from a file. In this post, I’ll round up three very useful ones. It’s easy to have mistakes creep into your HTML documents, and one of the best free, automated ways to target mistakes and fix them is HTML Tidy. A group of open-source volunteers keeps this program fresh. The program can automatically clean up most types of HTML mistakes you make, but it also alerts you when it has no fix and points to what you need to fix yourself.
Especially if you use and reuse the same HTML templates a lot, you can end up with a lot of advertisement-related baggage, unwanted frames, and scripts that you don’t need and more. Don't click here : The art of hyperlinking. I've often thought there is a subtle art to the humble hyperlink, that stalwart building block of hypertext, the stuff that Ted Nelson's Xanadu dream was made of.
The word hypertext was coined by Nelson and published in a paper delivered to a national conference of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1965. Adding to his design for a nonsequential writing tool, Nelson proposed a feature called "zippered lists," in which elements in one text would be linked to related or identical elements in other texts. Nelson's two interests, screen editing and nonsequential writing, were merging. With zippered lists, links could be made between large sections, small sections, whole pages, or single paragraphs. The writer and reader could manufacture a unique document by following a set of links between discrete documents that were "zipped" together. I distinctly remember reading this 1995 Wired article on Ted Nelson and Xanadu when it was published.
Clean Code : What beautiful HTML code looks like.