HTML Entities

HTML Entities are used to render a character that would normally be interpreted by the browser.

An entity is a string that begins with the & character and ends with the ; character. The characters between & and ; represent a unique character or symbol.

Common Entity Codes

Character Name Entity Code Decimal Code
  Non-Breaking Space    
" Quote " "
Left Single Quote
Right Single Quote
Left Double Quote
Right Double Quote
' Apostrophe ' '
& Ampersand & &
< Less-Than < <
> Greater Than > >
Hyphen / Dash &dash;
En Dash
Em Dash
© Copyright Symbol © ©
® Registered Symbol ® ®
Trade Mark Symbol
Numero Symbol &numero;

Complete List of Entity Codes

See the official W3 list of character identifiers below or visit the page: