Displaying Special Characters

Why does putting an & in my text mess up my page?

For the full list of displayable characters, check out theASCII CHART.

Example

I had to learn this one early- I was the MIS Director for Jacoby & Meyers!

I want to use the words, "me & you" so that they appear
just like that. I also want to do a smiley face ;->
or maybe a sad face ;-<

Some characters like > & < have special meaning to HTML. Therefore we must use special codes

& is &, < is <, and > is >

Source code

I had to learn this one early- I was the MIS Director for
Jacoby & Meyers!

I want to use the words, "me & you" so that they appear
just like that. I also want to do a smiley face ;->
or maybe a sad face ;-<

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