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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  • 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 (O?) 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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