When building up your portfolio, or any HTML file that you’ll want to use in a web browser, the formatting of code and code snippets can be a little tricky.
Some elements of, say, your JavaScript or Python syntax may cause your web browser some confusion. The overlap between symbols such as “>”or “&” can cause difficulty in interpretation.
This can be avoided by manually changing overlapping symbols through “HTML escaping” which will correctly render your code snippets in the browser.
A quick and easy way to avoid the tedium of making these changes by hand is to use an online HTML Escape Tool like https://www.freeformatter.com/html-escape.html or https://codebeautify.org/html-escape-unescape.
Check it out, and make the great escape 😉
Ciara Anderson, PhD 