How to write fractions in html?

Question

How to write fractions in html? I want to write some like this.."3 ½ years" in html. How to do it?

html:

  <html>
      <body>
          <p>3 1/2 years</p>
      </body>
 </html>

See if this answer helps. http://stackoverflow.com/a/10081414/5586958 — Lexi, Jul 01 '16 at 11:20
You can do it just like it's rendered in your question: "3 ½ years". View the page source. — Tom Blodget, Jul 01 '16 at 23:49

Berkay Yaylacı · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-01T12:02:26.830

3

You can use;

&frac12;  3 ½

or you can use ASCII character code;

&#189;   3 ½

Hope helps;

edited Jul 01 '16 at 12:02

answered Jul 01 '16 at 11:25

Berkay Yaylacı

`&frac12` without `;` is a parse error. – Oriol Jul 01 '16 at 12:01
@Oriol Thanks, I forgot. – Berkay Yaylacı Jul 01 '16 at 12:03
It works of course, but numeric character entity references in HTML are not ASCII. They are Unicode— as are all characters, regardless of the document encoding. – Tom Blodget Jul 01 '16 at 23:01

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '16 at 11:22

2

You can try this:

 3<sup>1</sup>&frasl;<sub>2</sub>years

answered Jul 01 '16 at 11:22

Geeky Ninja

1

You're welcome, if this answer your question do not forgot to mark it answered. :) – Geeky Ninja Jul 01 '16 at 11:35

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 01 '16 at 11:23

2

You can use this code:

&frac12

Then, your code should like this:

<p>3 &frac12 years</p>

3 &frac12 years

answered Jul 01 '16 at 11:23

Shu Peng

`&frac12` without `;` is a parse error. – Oriol Jul 01 '16 at 12:01
@Oriol It's ok without `;` in Chrome. I have not test in other browsers, maybe with `;` is standard code style. – Shu Peng Jul 01 '16 at 12:10
@ShuPeng HTML is able to recover from errors, but that does not mean you should write invalid code. Try it in XHTML and you will see the draconian error handling. – Oriol Jul 01 '16 at 13:25

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 01 '16 at 11:21

1

¼   &frac14;
½   &frac12;

Just type nominator and denominator at the end

answered Jul 01 '16 at 11:21

user3041764

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