Character Entity representation

did not find it in W3

[henry0]

Hello
Do you know of a character entity representation for
rd like in 1/3rd with the small rd above base line in a similar way as MS Words does it.

same for nd (second) and th for (fifth)

thanks

[moltar]

In plain HTML I think you are limited to the following entities:

¼ ¼ one-fourth  
½ ½ one-half  
¾ ¾ three-fourths  

But you should check out MathML [w3.org].

[encyclo]

I don't think there's a character entity for any of these. The easy way to do it is to use good ole' superscript tags:

1<sup>st</sup> 
2<sup>nd</sup> 
3<sup>rd</sup> 
4<sup>th</sup>

You can also use a

span

with a class and apply CSS, but that's much more verbose than using

<sup></sup>

.

[henry0]

Thank you gentlemen,
It confirms my thoughts about existing entity

I will then use the .

I had forgotten about those!

Regards

Henry

[encyclo]

I forgot to mention: you can still use CSS applied to the

<sup></sup>

tags, for example:

sup {color:#c00;}

So you can adjust the look as required.

[bill]

But you should check out MathML.

I just did this recently: Mathematical equations on your web page [webmasterworld.com]

Although I would love to use it, MathML is just not ready yet. IE doesn't support it without a plug-in...that's enough to scare off a lot of your visitors. Also, it really wouldn't work in this case anyway. encyclo already nailed the solution in msg #:3.

[henry0]

Thanks all,
I used Encyclo tip

regards

Henry

PS) it is strange that W3 has only a few of those in that range working
further more my quest is quite simple and got to be used very often