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I have a question about ASCII code and HTML.
Most sites state what ASCII is but then mention things like HTML alternative or HTML code. Is this still ASCII?
Any way, my actual question is, is < ASCII (if not, what ‘language’ is it)?
ASCII is an encoding : it defines how the char you see are encoded in 0 & 1 (in fact in bytes). This problem is totally unrelated to how a browser displays the characters it decodes in a HTML file.
You can send to a browser a file containing the characters
<in any encoding, be it UTF-8, ASCII, or another one.<is a character entity reference, coming from SGML and defined both in XML and HTML.Here’s the official reference about HTML4 character entities.