Html Entities
HTML entities are strigns inside HTML code that start with ampersand & and end with semicolon ;. They allow you to add wide variety of characters to your HTML code.
For example < and > characters are reserved in HTML because they are used to enclose HTML tags. But if you need to display one of them on the page you can use > to display > and < for <.
HTML entities can be referenced by name, like we did with > and <, but they also have numeric references: hexadecimal and decimal.
For examle > can also be referenced as > and < can be referenced as <.
Some of the entities don’t have named reference and can only be referenced by their decimal or hexadecimal reference. Like for example celsius sign ℃
Here is a list of some popular HTML entities:
Character
Entity
Hexadecimal
Decimal
Name
©
©
©
©
COPYRIGHT SIGN
®
® ®
®
®
REGISTERED SIGN
™
™
™
™
TRADE MARK SIGN
>
>
>
>
GREATER-THAN SIGN
<
<
<
<
LESS-THAN SIGN
;
;
;
;
SEMICOLON
&
&
&
&
AMPERSAND
”
"
"
"
QUOTATION MARK
#
#
#
#
NUMBER SIGN
★
★ ★
★
★
BLACK STAR
☆
☆
☆
☆
WHITE STAR
✂
✂
✂
BLACK SCISSORS
✓
✓ ✓
✓
✓
CHECK MARK
✗
✗
✗
✗
BALLOT X
✩
✩
✩
STRESS OUTLINED WHITE STAR
✪
✪
✪
CIRCLED WHITE STAR
❞
❞
❞
HEAVY DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
❤
❤
❤
HEAVY BLACK HEART
←
← ← ← ← ←
←
←
LEFTWARDS ARROW
↑
↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
↑
↑
UPWARDS ARROW
→
→ → → → →
→
→
RIGHTWARDS ARROW
↓
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
↓
↓
DOWNWARDS ARROW
€
€
€
€
EURO SIGN
▶
▶
▶
BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
▽
▽ ▽
▽
▽
WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
◉
◉
◉
FISHEYE
∑
∑ ∑
∑
∑
N-ARY SUMMATION
ℹ
ℹ
ℹ
INFORMATION SOURCE
№
№
№
№
NUMERO SIGN
℗
℗
℗
℗
SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT
℃
℃
℃
DEGREE CELSIUS
℉
℉
℉
DEGREE FAHRENHEIT