I feel like whenever I see the ampersand on this website, it’s followed with “amp;”. I’ve noticed it other places on the internet also. Why does this happen? Is it some programming thing?

Just for a test: &

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    1 year ago

    Lol, ok there might be a little more than what meets the eye, cuz when i type `&` (without amp;) it converted it to & !!

    new challenge- try to get it to render a & instead of & inside of `` (or ``` ``` for bulk testing)

    tried:

    • `&`
    • `&`
    • `&`
    • `&;`
    • `&<invisible character>`
    • `&divide;` still becomes `÷` weirdly enough

    I kinda cheated cuz its not the same character… but I got it to show by using the japanese monospaced & (&)

    test: