CHARACTER ENTITIES

Standard character entities are numeric or alphabetic codes used in HTML to ensure that browsers successfully render special characters and symbols like punctuation, math symbols, and diacritical marks.

You can use named or numeric entities from the chart below to represent the corresponding symbols on your Web page. A more complete list of named character entities can be found at the W3C website.

Numeric Entity	Named Entity	Symbol	Description
!		!	Exclamation point
"	"	"	Quotation mark
#		#	Number sign/hash mark
$		$	Dollar sign
%		%	Percent sign
&	&	&	Ampersand ("and" symbol)
'		'	Apostrophe
(		(	Left parenthesis
)		)	Right parenthesis
*		*	Asterisk
+		+	Plus sign
,		,	Comma
-		-	Hyphen
.		.	Period
/		/	Forward slash
0 to 9		0-9	Numbers 0-9
:		:	Colon
;		;	Semicolon
<	<	<	Less-than symbol
=		=	Equal sign
>	>	>	Greater-than symbol
?		?	Question mark
@		@	"At" symbol
A to Z		A to Z	Uppercase letters "A" to "Z"
[		[	Left bracket
\		\	Backwards slash
]		]	Right bracket
^		^	Caret
_		_	Underscore
`		`	Accent grave
a to z		a to z	Lowercase letters "a" to "z"
{		{	Left curly bracket
\|		\|	Vertical bar/pipe symbol
}		}	Right curly bracket
~		~	Tilde
			Non-breaking space
¡	¡	¡	Inverted exclamation point
¢	¢	¢	Cent symbol
£	£	£	Pound sign
¥	¥	¥	Yen symbol
§	§	§	Section sign
¨	¨	¨	Umlaut
©	©	©	Copyright symbol
ª	ª	ª	Feminine ordinal
º	º	º	Masculine ordinal
¬	¬	¬	Not sign
			Soft hyphen
®	®	®	Registered trademark
¯	¯	¯	Macron accent
°	°	°	Degree symbol
±	±	±	Plus or minus
´	´	´	Acute accent
µ	µ	µ	Micro sign (Greek mu)
¶	¶	¶	Paragraph symbol
·	·	·	Middle dot
¸	¸	¸	Cedilla
¿	¿	¿	Inverted question mark