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I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD here. I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as ...
#2: Post edited
by
Lorenzo Donati
·
2023-07-28T13:11:15Z (over 1 year ago)
- I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD [here](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4382).
- I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as the corresponding entity, whereas during editing, in the [tag WIKI preview pane](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4382/edit), it showed up correctly.
- I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD [here](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4382).
- I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as the corresponding entity, whereas during editing, in the [tag WIKI preview pane](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4382/edit), it showed up correctly.
- **EDIT**
- Following the advice of Olin in a comment, I changed the entity to an `ndash` (–) and the problem disappeared. Funny.
#1: Initial revision
by
Lorenzo Donati
·
2023-07-28T11:00:32Z (over 1 year ago)
HTML entities not showing correctly when editing tag WIKIs.
I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD [here](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4382). I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as the corresponding entity, whereas during editing, in the [tag WIKI preview pane](https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags/4382/edit), it showed up correctly.