Comments on: EMDASH HTML Code

By: Denise Rutledge

Denise Rutledge — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:35:04 +0000

Whether you put a space on each side of the em dash depends upon which style manual you adhere to. AP Style requires a space on each side.

By: Peter Foody

Peter Foody — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:42:22 +0000

Your examples and the extra emphasis you put on what an error looks like make this a very useful and easy to remember lesson.

Thank you for the extra time you took to make this such a high quality explanation of how to use and em dash.
- Peter

By: hikingmike

hikingmike — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:31:06 +0000

This came in handy as I just wanted to know what the html was for emdash and learned a little more too. Great simple informative post. Google brought me here for “em dash html code”.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:38:37 +0000

Thank you for succinctly explaining the proper use of an em dash via HTML. Exactly what I needed for a project.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:19:51 +0000

The two hyphens is leftover from the days of typewriters that did not have an em dash, hence people used to introduce the two hyphens to indicate the em dash.

It is archaic, but not–from what I have leaned–technically “wrong.” But I could be mistaken.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:04:10 +0000

— also works.