HTML uses a number of characters in special ways, such as the < and > symbols. If you want to display these characters in a web page, you must use special character codes. Constructor contains a wizard, accessible through the Insert | Symbol menu item, which contains a list of special characters and their character codes. You can also use it to create the code for any character you can type in or copy from another program, such as Character Map.


Example 1
The symbols <, > and © either cannot be entered normally using a keyboard, or are not displayed as normal in a web browser, as < and > have a special significance in HTML.
Description
The scentance above contains several characters which you normally cannot enter.

How To Make It
Load the Special Character Wizard using the Insert | Symbol menu item. Select the character you want to insert from the list, and click on Finish. The character code associated with that character is inserted.


Example 2
The Special Character Wizard does not include the characters ð, ß and other accented characters.
Description
You can use the Special Character Wizard to create special character codes for all available characters

How To Make It
Load the Special Character Wizard. At the bottom of the wizard is a text box which will accept one character. Load the Character Map utility which comes with Windows (Start | Acessories | System Tools | Character Map in Windows 98), select the character you want and copy it to the clipboard. Paste this into the text box using Ctrl+V, and click on Finish. The code for the character will be calculated and placed into the file.