Title: Symbols & HTML Coding: & or &?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Symbols & HTML Coding: & or &?

 *  [sk101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sk101/)
 * (@sk101)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symbols-html-coding-or/)
 * Hi,
    Im new to WordPress. Ive had a look to see if this is addressed elsewhere
   without much luck. Should it be & or &? Both seem to work in Text, and & uncoded
   works in Visual. So both ‘Black & White’ and ‘Black & White’ in Text display 
   correctly which just doesn’t seem right. Or is it? Thanks for your time. S

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 *  [Chris Barrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbarrett123/)
 * (@cbarrett123)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symbols-html-coding-or/#post-5154988)
 * HTML entities would always be either:
 *     ```
       &entity_name;
       OR
       &#entity_number;
       ```
   
 * For example, a copyright would be `©` while an “O” with a tilde above it(
   Õ) would be O`#&771;`. That said, the ampersand is so common that modern browsers(
   and WordPress) will automatically convert the & into the corresponding HTML entity.
   I believe even the W3C Validator has been updated now to accept ampersands as
   non-entities in source code.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symbols-html-coding-or/#post-5154988)
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