Sunday, 6 June 2004 - 12:13 PM EDT

I figured something close but it's not from any particular math source. Link is above.
I just used some basic things to get this. I put it on a page for you to view. If you want to use it just view the source code of that page to get the HTML for it...

Here is a site that could help for what you want.
http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html

Monday, 7 June 2004 - 11:02 AM EDT

There is a "correct" way to do it, but it might not work on all browsers and depend on how the browser is configured. It probably will work on modern browsers in the English-speaking world.

The HTML hex encoding for the character is:

÷

And it looks like:

÷

Welcome to UTF8 voodoo.

JP

Monday, 7 June 2004 - 11:05 AM EDT

Damn, damn, damn. That wasn't what you asked. And I was all impressed with myself too.

What you want is supported by MathML, a HTML/XML language for rendering mathematical expressions. I know that there is support for it in Netscape 7+ (maybe you need a plugin), but I don't know about Internet Explorer. You can probably do some searches on Google or something to see if IE supports it.

JP

Monday, 7 June 2004 - 12:39 PM EDT

And if all else fails why not write it as a linear equation.....

(3x+4 )?(2x-1)=4

Tuesday, 8 June 2004 - 7:02 AM EDT

or the hard way a table

<table border="0">
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>3x </td>
<td>+ </td>
<td>4</td>
<td valign="middle" rowspan="3" colspan="1">=</td>
<td valign="middle" rowspan="3" colspan="1">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="3" height="2%" valign="middle">
<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade="noshade"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2x </td>
<td> -</td>
<td>1 </td>
</tr>

</tbody>
</table>