HTML Entities

Reserved characters in HTML must be replaced with entities: < (less than) =

Some characters are reserved in HTML. If you use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your HTML text, the browser might mix them with tags. Entity names or entity numbers can be used to display reserved HTML characters.

& entity_name

&# entity_number

or

Entity names are easier to remember than entity numbers.

Two words separated by a non-breaking space will stick together (not break into a new line). This is handy when breaking the words might be disruptive.

§ 10

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character entity.

) is used to define a hyphen character (‑) that does not break into a new line.

Try it » < less than

Try it » > greater than

Try it » & ampersand

Try it » " double quotation mark

Try it » ' single quotation mark

Try it » ¢ cent

Try it » £ pound

Try it » ¥ yen

Try it » € euro

Try it » © copyright

Try it » ® registered trademark

Try it » ™ trademark

Try it »

Entity names are case sensitive.

A diacritical mark is a "glyph" added to a letter. Some diacritical marks, like grave ( ̀) and acute ( ́) are called accents. Diacritical marks can be used in combination with alphanumeric characters to produce a character that is not present in the character set (encoding) used in the page.

̀

à Try it » ́

á Try it » ̂

â Try it » ̃

ã Try it » ̀ O

Ò Try it » ́ O

Ó Try it » ̂ O

Ô Try it » ̃ O

Õ Try it » There are more examples in the next chapter.