[thelist] Rules of Using & and &, etc...

Gregory.John.Toland@ccmail.census.gov Gregory.John.Toland at ccmail.census.gov
Wed May 10 10:12:41 2000 

What are the rules for using & as opposed to the actual & character in HTML
coding?  I noticed sometimes people (in-house) have the symbol & in their
code and other times they have used &.  The same for " versus the symbol "
or &lt; versus the symbol <.  The general question is when do you use the
character & and when do you use the numeric entity (&#38;) or the character
entity (&amp;)?  Thanks for any help you can give.

Greg