Hi guys,

I am an absolute noob with html programming and I would appreciate it if someone could tell me: why doesn't the character entity for one-third, , work for me?

This link seems to indicate that Firefox 3 and IE 8 (which is what I'm using) should be compatible with this code.

Thanks,

Matt

For one third, you have to specify its unicode. ⅓ is not defined in HTML 4 specification, but ¼ is. However HTML 5 will have ⅓ defined.

<p>This is one third: ⅓</p>
<p>This is one quarter: ¼</p>
<p>This does not work: &frac13;</p>

Unicode in decimal for one third is: 8531.

Thanks for that Peter - makes sense now.