Special Characters in HTML

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PunctuationHTML Entity
(case sensitive)
ISO Latin-1 codename or meaning
––en dash
——em dash
¡¡¡inverted exclamation
¿¿¿inverted question mark
""quotation mark
““left double curly quote
””right double curly quote
 'apostrophe (single quote)
‘‘left single curly quote
’’right single curly quote
«


»
«


»
«


»
guillemets (used as quotation marks in some languages, e.g., French)
 
(Its there, but you can’t see it!)
  non-breaking space
Symbols 
&&&ampersand
¢¢¢cent
©©©copyright
÷÷÷divide
>>>greater than
<&lt;&#60;less than
µ&micro;&#181;micron
·&middot;&#183;middle dot
&para;&#182;pilcrow (paragraph sign)
±&plusmn;&#177;plus/minus
&euro;&#8364;Euro
£&pound;&#163;British Pound Sterling
®&reg;&#174;registered
§&sect;&#167;section
&trade;&#153;trademark
¥&yen;&#165;Japanese Yen
°&deg;&#176;Degree
Diacritics 
á


Á
&aacute;


&Aacute;
&#225;


&#193;
lower-case “a” with acute accent


upper-case “A” with acute accent
à


À
&agrave;


&Agrave;
&#224;


&#192;
lower-case “a” with grave accent


upper-case “A” with grave accent
â


Â
&acirc;


&Acirc;
&#226;


&#194;
lower-case “a” with circumflex


upper-case “A” with circumflex
å


Å
&aring;


&Aring;
&#229;


&#197;
lower-case “a” with ring


upper-case “A” with ring
ã


Ã
&atilde;


&Atilde;
&#227;


&#195;
lower-case “a” with tilde


upper-case “A” with tilde
ä


Ä
&auml;


&Auml;
&#228;


&#196;
lower-case “a” with diaeresis/umlaut


upper-case “A” with diaeresis/umlaut
æ


Æ
&aelig;


&AElig;
&#230;


&#198;
lower-case “ae” ligature


upper-case “AE” ligature
ç


Ç
&ccedil;


&Ccedil;
&#231;


&#199;
lower-case “c” with cedilla


upper-case “C” with cedilla
é


É
&eacute;


&Eacute;
&#233;


&#201;
lower-case “e” with acute accent


upper-case “E” with acute accent
è


È
&egrave;


&Egrave;
&#232;


&#200;
lower-case “e” with grave accent


upper-case “E” with grave accent
ê


Ê
&ecirc;


&Ecirc;
&#234;


&#202;
lower-case “e” with circumflex


upper-case “E” with circumflex
ë


Ë
&euml;


&Euml;
&#235;


&#203;
lower-case “e” with diaeresis/umlaut


upper-case “E” with diaeresis/umlaut
í


Í
&iacute;


&Iacute;
&#237;


&#205;
lower-case “i” with acute accent


upper-case “I” with acute accent
ì


Ì
&igrave;


&Igrave;
&#236;


&#204;
lower-case “i” with grave accent


upper-case “I” with grave accent
î


Î
&icirc;


&Icirc;
&#238;


&#206;
lower-case “i” with circumflex


upper-case “I” with circumflex
ï


Ï
&iuml;


&Iuml;
&#239;


&#207;
lower-case “i” with diaeresis/umlaut


upper-case “I” with diaeresis/umlaut
ñ


Ñ
&ntilde;


&Ntilde;
&#241;


&#209;
lower-case “n” with tilde


upper-case “N” with tilde
ó


Ó
&oacute;


&Oacute;
&#243;


&#211;
lower-case “o” with acute accent


upper-case “O” with acute accent
ò


Ò
&ograve;


&Ograve;
&#242;


&#210;
lower-case “o” with grave accent


upper-case “O” with grave accent
ô


Ô
&ocirc;


&Ocirc;
&#244;


&#212;
lower-case “o” with circumflex


upper-case “O” with circumflex
ø


Ø
&oslash;


&Oslash;
&#248;


&#216;
lower-case “o” with slash


upper-case “O” with slash
õ


Õ
&otilde;


&Otilde;
&#245;


&#213;
lower-case “o” with tilde


upper-case “O” with tilde
ö


Ö
&ouml;


&Ouml;
&#246;


&#214;
lower-case “o” with diaeresis/umlaut


upper-case “O” with diaeresis/umlaut
ß&szlig;&#223;ess-tsett
ú


Ú
&uacute;


&Uacute;
&#250;


&#218;
lower-case “u” with acute accent


upper-case “U” with acute accent
ù


Ù
&ugrave;


&Ugrave;
&#249;


&#217;
lower-case “u” with grave accent


upper-case “U” with grave accent
û


Û
&ucirc;


&Ucirc;
&#251;


&#219;
lower-case “u” with circumflex


upper-case “U” with circumflex
ü


Ü
&uuml;


&Uuml;
&#252;


&#220;
lower-case “u” with diaeresis/umlaut


upper-case “U” with diaeresis/umlaut
ÿ&yuml;&#255;lower-case “y” with diaeresis/umlaut
´


`
 &#180;


&#96;
acute accent with no letter


grave accent/reversed apostrophe with no letter

 

Notes:

  1. The &quot; entity was mistakenly omitted from the HTML 3.2 specification. While use of &quot; generates error reports when validating against 3.2, browsers have continued to recognize the entity and its use is generally safe (sticklers may wish to use &#34; instead). The omission has been corrected in the HTML 4.0 specification.

  2. The non-breaking space (&nbsp; or &#160;) can be used not only to prevent the separation of words by line wraps, but also to force a space equal in size to a keyboard/spacebar space (useful for indentation or wider word separation) or to “hold” space in the empty cell of a table (as in the table above).

  3. The middle dot (&middot; or &#183;) can be used as a bullet and embedded anywhere in text. Because it is equal in size to a period, however, it may be necessary to apply <B> </B> or tags to enhance its graphic effect (use of <FONT SIZE=”x”> </FONT> or <BIG> </BIG> elements is not recommended, as these will alter the character’s vertical spacing relative to other characters in the same line).