Can you guys help me the output of this code please

Question

<p>3&minus;2</p>
I need a clear discription of how the outcome is obtained please

Answer 1

These are called HTML entities, they will be shown on page as certain characters like minus sign in your case, more about it:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

Answer 2

First they are user friendly (readable), then some have special properties like &nbsp; (non breaking space) that you can use on responsive pages not to let two words to break at white space, then to HTML encode text - that you will use when write inline HTML and text in dom element's event attribute onclick="alert(&quot;here&quot;)", etc. That are the some that I use, but there are more for sure

Answer 3

&minus; means the browser will render it as -
so the output will be 3-2

Answer 4

So what are the applications of HTML entities

Answer 5

HTML is a structure language not a scripting language and this is a p tag (paragraph) of HTML.
In this tag, what you write, shows its as a simple text.

Answer 6

Since your desired operation is with in <p> tags, which is a tag that represents a paragraph, it will output what you placed with in it. The &minus is a just a symbol that represents a negative/ subtraction sign. HTML wont work with mathematical operations unless used along side a scripting language

Answer 7

Much thanks for your help