charset iso 8859-1 and the use of $ or $

[UncleMortis]

In my validation adventure with w3c and 4.01 html. I've found that my form won't be valid because I have this in my form: <input name=creditcard value=&quot;&dollar;&quot;> The code to write the $ symbol isn't a recognised code for the charset iso 8859-1. I can't just put the symbol for it in there either because it wants words or the code as a value. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[UncleMortis]

After bashing my head against the wall all morning trying to work out this problem, I came across the answer! The &dollar; won't work on the character set but I just found a site that lists them all and I had to do it hexadecimally. so it's &#3624; which then gives me the dollar sign and will be valid. It's been a trial learning about the meta tags and charsets and validation in 4.01, but I'm getting there.