Widgets

• GeoNews - NEWRSS-driven News + Google Maps = GeoNews - Get the latest global news as it happens and see where it's happening
• World Airport and Airspace DatabaseA rather cool widget using Google Maps - easily locate any airport in the world and see a satellite photo of it... and overlay the airspace onto it!
• Visual Traceroute(currently broken)
• Halflife 2... IN ASCIIYes, it's the acclaimed Halflife 2 lovingly rendered into ASCII. The suspense, mystery, excitement and of course the stunning graphics are all here!
• Searchable HTML Entities
• BuildImage Widget
• JS Image functions
• Colours in PHP

Personal

• GalleryMy personal image gallery & some home-made images. No hotlinking please!
• IRC Quotes[MooBot]'s Quotes!
• Links
• Mobile Phones for Gamers

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Notes about HTML Entities

An entitiy (or more properly "character entity reference") is used to display special characters in HTML (and XHTML/XML) and can also be useful for more common characters like the double quote!

The ampersand (&) character should always be written as & in an HTML document, and all entities you use should end with a semicolon (;). Technically there are certain circumstances where the semicolon is optional, but it's good practice to use it anyway.

To escape a quote in an HTML attribute you should use the HTML entity.
For example:

<div onclick="alert("Hello World");"> - This is wrong because the first quote inside the attribute ends it - the browser sees <div onclick="alert("

<div onclick="alert(\"Hello World\");"> - This is wrong: backslash (\) is the javascript escape character, but it doesn't work in HTML!

<div onclick="alert(&quot;Hello World&quot;);"> - This is correct - the entities get decoded before the javascript runs, so javascript sees the code as alert("Hello World");

Often people wish to display the less than (<) and greater than (>) characters in their pages. If you're looking for a tag that will display HTML inside it as code instead of as normal, I'm afraid you're out of luck (no, <pre> won't do it!) You need to replace all the < with &lt; and the > with &gt;.

Searchable HTML Entities List

This list is taken from the w3c, and presented in a client-side searchable form. It contains all named entities available in HTML 4.