HTML character entity

HTML Entities

In HTML, some characters are reserved.

The less than sign (<) and greater than sign (>) cannot be used in HTML because the browser mistakenly considers them to be labels.

If you want to display reserved characters correctly, we must use the character entity (character entities) in the HTML source code.

The character entity looks like this:

&entity_name; orentity_number;

To show the less than sign, we have to write this:&lt; or & #60;

Tip: The advantage of using entity names instead of numbers is that names are easy to remember. The downside is that the browser may not support all entity names (the support for entity numbers is good).

Non-breaking space (non-breaking space)

The characters commonly used character entity in HTML is a nonbreaking space (&nbsp;).

The browser will always truncate the space in the HTML page. If you write 10 spaces in the text, the browser removes 9 of them before the page is displayed. To increase the number of spaces in the page, you need to use &nbsp; The character entity.

Example HTML instance

Experiment with HTML entity symbols: Try it yourself.

Useful character entities in HTML

Note: The entity name is case sensitive!

Show Results	Description	Entity name	Entity number
	Space	 	& #160;
<	Less than sign	&lt;	& #60;
>	Greater than sign	&gt;	& #62;
&	and number	&amp;	& #38;
"	Quotes	&quot;	& #34;
‘	Apostrophe	&apos; (ie not supported)	& #39;
￠	Score of	&cent;	& #162;
£	Pounds	&pound;	& #163;
¥	Yen	&yen;	& #165;
€	Euro	&euro;	& #8364;
§	Section	&sect;	& #167;
©	Copyright	&copy;	& #169;
®	Registered trademarks	&reg;	& #174;
™	Trademark	&trade;	& #8482;
X	Multiplication sign	&times;	& #215;
÷	Division Sign	&divide;	& #247;

For a complete entity symbol reference, please visit our HTML entity symbol reference Manual.

HTML character entity