HTML Entities
Complete list of HTML entities with their names, numbers and descriptions, including printable ASCII characters, ISO-8859-1 and symbols.
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HTML entities explained
What is a character entity reference?
An HTML entity is text starting with & and ending with ; that the browser replaces with a single character. Three forms:
| Form | Syntax | Example for euro |
|---|---|---|
| Named | &name; |
€ |
| Decimal | &#N; |
€ |
| Hexadecimal | &#xH; |
€ |
When do you need entities?
Always escape &, <, >, ", ' — these are used by HTML itself. Everything else is optional with UTF-8 documents.
The non-breaking space
prevents a line break and is not collapsed with adjacent whitespace. Good for 10 km; bad for indentation (use CSS instead).