Amongst the dozens of HTML elements we've neglected, there are one or two that didn't fit neatly into this presentation but are sometimes useful.
<hr>
tag.
followed by a number that is the ASCII code for the character you
want. You can use a semi-colon after the number if you need to separate it from whatever follows.<a href=mailto:abc500@york.ac.uk>email
me</a>
construct produces a link that, when clicked on, sets
up an email addressed to abc100 at york.ac.uk. This is extremely
useful except for one unfortunate thing: spammers can find them
easily. In fact spammers routinely set up automated searches for
mailto:
tags to harvest hundreds of thousands of email
addresses. There are some ways to make life harder for them, but the
safest option is not to use them.Previous page | Next page |