What is the proper way to code inches?

Due to a lack of available space, I'd like to use a symbol. I know it's an anal question, but I'm curious to know the correct format for web pages. All I can find are quotation marks, and doing a search gives me a bunch of garbage since it's such a general term.

quotation mark " "

Am I supposed to spell it out? Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
jGirlyGirl1

I think that this is what you are looking for...they are called escape characters...not anal characters--although there are some out there

http://blogs.wdevs.com/jayaveer/archive/2005/05/30/3581.aspx

You could always use the ASCII Symbol & # 148;

Just place it behind the number that you want to ad the symbol and without spaces like 36"& #148;"

It should all run together, I had to put spaces in it because it would convert the code to symbol even with ""'s around it

If you go to http://www.bbsinc.com/symbol.html you will find a complete listing of them.

Hope this helps!

GirlyGirl,

Well, " is right for " Can you show me a link of where you want to use the inches symbol.

Justyn

Thanks guys! I saw those (quotation marks), but I thought that it might be wrong to use them because they are not technically for "inches." I told you it's an anal question.

Javahead,
The link you provided only shows ASCII characters up to 127 Do you know for a fact that 148 is for inches?

Agkits,
It just for simple measurements...

We had used ", * , &, etc etc and when we converted from version 3.1 to 4.0 it went very very wrong and caused all kinds of issues during the conversion.

I would ask all the issues before using characters just to make sure

Hi Dave,

You are saying that you used regular characters instead of the proper HTML symbols right?

Thanks,
jGirlyGirl1

Correct

Thank you Just wanted to make sure because you bring up a good point.

, what do you think?

JGirly,

I think using the &quot is the right way to go. Generally ' means feet and " means inches. Example: 1'-2" or 2"x2". I think most of your users will understand what it means. Use &quot in html places, and " in places like variants.

The link that I placed actually has ASCII codes 32-254 there are two colums, its not the best layed out page in the world.

This link may be a little easier to read, it has a little better layout.

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

I have tried this before with other characters and some browser wont support this, dont ask me why but for some reason &copy sometimes wont work for a copyright. Ive found that just going back to basics does the trick. Personal prefrence I think.

Thanks guys!

Whether I end up using the HTML name (") or number(& #34;), I'm going to just go with the double quotes.

I appreciate your help.