I\'m using an \'&
\' symbol with HTML5 and UTF-8 in my site\'s
. Google shows the ampersand fine on its SERPs, as do all the browse
The link has a fairly good example of when and why you may need to escape &
to &
https://jsfiddle.net/vh2h7usk/1/
Interestingly, I had to escape the character in order to represent it properly in my answer here. If I were to use the built-in code sample option (from the answer panel), I can just type in &
and it appears as it should. But if I were to manually use the
element, then I have to escape in order to represent it correctly :)