Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 03/30/07 06:44

Scripsit Cogito:

>> <p>Here is a picture of a queen: &#x2655. And here is another
>> one: &#x2655. And yet another: &#x2655. Here are 3 in a row:
>> &#x2655 &#x2655 &#x2655</p>
>
> Looks simple enough but it does not work here... what is missing?

You didn't do as _I_ wrote (and as HTML specifications do in their
examples):
&#x2655;
By the specifications, the semicolon is not always required (e.g., in the
occurrences in the above markup), but it has always been good practice in
HTML to include it. For some odd reason, IE 7 decided to refuse to recognize
&#x2655 without the semicolon. Moreover, the semicolon _is_ required in
XHTML, so maybe you used XHTML on an XHTML-capable browser.

Moreover, you may have missed the font issue I mentioned. So if you have
<td>&#x2655;</td>
it's useful (for IE) to have
td { font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Code2000; }
in your stylesheet.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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