HTML Character Entities

Certain characters are reserved in HTML. We cannot use the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) in HTML, because the browser will misinterpret them as tags. To display reserved characters correctly, we must use character entities (character entities) in the HTML source code.

HTML reserved characters replacement with character entity

Reserved characters in HTML must be replaced with character entities.

Some characters that are not found on the keyboard can also be replaced with character entities.

HTML entities

Certain characters are reserved in HTML.

We cannot use the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) in HTML, because the browser will misinterpret them as tags.

To display reserved characters correctly, we must use character entities (character entities) in the HTML source code. Character entities look like this:

&entity_name;

or

&#entity_number;

To display the less than symbol, we must write: < or < or <

Tip: The advantage of using entity names instead of numbers is that they are easy to remember. However, the disadvantage is that browsers may not support all entity names (browsers support entity numbers very well).

Non-breaking Space (Non-breaking Space)

The commonly used character entities in HTML are non-breaking spaces ( ).

The browser always truncates spaces in HTML pages. If you write 10 spaces, the browser will delete them before displaying the page. 9 number. If you need to increase the number of spaces on a page, you need to use the   character entity.

Combined with phonetic symbols

Phonetic symbols are a 'glyph' added to letters.

Some accents, such as the acute accent ( ̀ ) and the grave accent ( ́ ).

Accents can appear above, below, inside, or between letters.

Accents can be used in combination with letters, numbers, and character combinations.

The following are some examples:

HTML character entities

Entity names are case-sensitive!

Although HTML is case-insensitive, entity characters are sensitive to case.

Please click to view the complete HTML entities on this site:HTML Entity Reference Manual.