Entities & Whitespace

Some characters are reserved in HTML. Use entities so the browser shows them literally instead of treating them as markup.

Normal HTML text usually collapses runs of whitespace during rendering. Entities represent characters that would otherwise conflict with markup or are inconvenient to type. Use them for the intended character, rather than as a repeated substitute for layout spacing.

Write a sentence with several spaces and compare its source with the rendered result. Display literal angle brackets through entities. Use CSS for the distance between two controls instead of inserting a long series of non-breaking spaces.