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HTML Entities

 

Some characters are reserved in HTML.

 

It is not possible to use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your text, because the browser will mix them with tags.

 

To actually display reserved characters, we must use character entities in the HTML source code.

 

To display a less than sign we must write: < or &#60;

 

Tip: The advantage of using an entity name, instead of a number, is that the name is easier to remember. However, the disadvantage is that browsers may not support all entity names (the support for entity numbers is very good).

Non-breaking Space

 

A common character entity used in HTML is the non-breaking space ( ).

 

Browsers will always truncate spaces in HTML pages. If you write 10 spaces in your text, the browser will remove 9 of them, before displaying the page. To add spaces to your text, you can use the   character entity.

 

HTML Useful Character Entities

 

Result 	Description 	Entity Name 	Entity Number
  	non-breaking space 	  	 
< 	less than 	< 	&#60;
> 	greater than 	> 	&#62;
& 	ampersand 	& 	&#38;
¢ 	cent 	¢ 	&#162;
£ 	pound 	£ 	&#163;
¥ 	yen 	¥ 	&#165;
€ 	euro 	€ 	&#8364;
§ 	section 	§ 	&#167;
© 	copyright 	© 	&#169;
® 	registered trademark 	® 	&#174;
™ 	trademark 	™ 	&#8482;

 

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