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HTML Entities Cheat Sheet
A quick reference guide to HTML entities, covering character encoding, special characters, symbols, and accented letters. This cheat sheet provides the HTML entity names and codes for displaying characters that are not directly available on a standard keyboard or that have special meaning in HTML.
Basic HTML Entities
Common Entities
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Less Than (<) |
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Greater Than (>) |
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Ampersand (&) |
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Double Quote (“) |
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Single Quote or Apostrophe (‘) |
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Non-Breaking Space |
Why Use Entities?
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HTML entities are crucial for displaying characters that have special meanings in HTML (like |
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For example, if you want to display |
Symbols and Accents
Currency Symbols
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Entity |
Description |
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Cent Symbol (¢) |
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Pound Symbol (£) |
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Yen Symbol (¥) |
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Euro Symbol (€) |
Accented Characters
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Description |
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a with acute accent (á) |
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e with acute accent (é) |
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i with acute accent (í) |
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o with acute accent (ó) |
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u with acute accent (ú) |
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c with cedilla (ç) |
Mathematical Symbols
Common Mathematical Entities
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Description |
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Plus-Minus Sign (±) |
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Division Sign (÷) |
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Multiplication Sign (×) |
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Square Root (√) |
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Infinity (∞) |
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Not Equal To (≠) |
Other Useful Entities
Symbols and Characters
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Description |
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Copyright Symbol (©) |
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Registered Trademark Symbol (®) |
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Trademark Symbol (™) |
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Section Sign (§) |
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Paragraph Sign (¶) |
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Bullet Point (•) |
Numeric Entities
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Besides named entities like For example, |
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Numeric entities are useful when a named entity doesn’t exist for a specific character. |