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 How do you create links to sections within the same page? Links can be created using the <a> tag, with referencing through the use of the number (#) symbol. For example, you can have one line as <a href=”#topmost”>BACK TO TOP</a>, which would result in the words “BACK TO TOP” appearing on the webpage and links to a bookmark named topmost. You then create a separate tag command like <a name=”topmost”> somewhere on the top of the same webpage so that the user will be linked to that spot when he clicked on “BACK TO TOP”.

How do you insert a copyright symbol on a browser page? To insert the copyright symbol, you need to type &copy; or & #169; in an HTML file.

Can attribute values be set to anything or are there specific values that they accept? Some attribute values can be set to only predefined values. Other attributes can accept any numerical value that represents the number of pixels for a size.

 What is the advantage of collapsing white space? White spaces are a blank sequence of space characters, which is treated as a single space character in HTML. Because the browser collapses multiple spaces into a single space, you can indent lines of text without worrying about multiple spaces. This enables you to organize the HTML code into a much more readable format. 

What is an image map? Image map lets you link to many different web pages using a single image. You can define shapes in images that you want to make part of an image mapping.

Do all character entities display properly on all systems? No, there are some character entities that cannot be displayed when the operating system that the browser is running on does not support the characters. When that happens, these characters are displayed as boxes.