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What Is PCDATA in HTML Documents?

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PCDATA stands for Parsed Character DATA. Here are some basic rules about PCDATA:

PCDATA is a string of characters and HTML entities.
HTML entities are escape sequences used to refer to special characters that are not so easy to enter them in a text document. For example, "©" is HTML entity referring to the copyright character: "©".
3 special characters: "<", ">", and "&" can not be used directly in PCDATA. They must be replaced by the corresponding HTML entities: "<", ">", and "&".
If "<" is used in PCDATA, it will be parsed as the beginning of a HTML tag.
If "&" is used in PCDATA, it will be parsed as the beginning of a HTML entity.

Below you will see some good examples of PCDATA:

  c FYICENTER
  &copy; FYICENTER
  &copy; &#70;&#89;&#73;&#67;&#69;&#78;&#84;&#69;&#82;

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