HTML Symbol Entities
Some characters are reserved and have special meaning in HTML. Such as less than (<) which is the beginning of the HTML tags. If need the browser to display these characters correctly, we must entry character entities in the HTML source code. Character entity has three parts: an ampersand (&), an entity name, or # and an entity number, and a semicolon (;). If we want to display less than in HTML, we need to enter < (entity name) or < (entity number). Among the entity list, we can use a lot of symbol entities in layout design. The advantage to use the entity name is very easier to remember, and the disadvantage is that not all browsers support the newest entity names. However, almost all browsers have good support on the entity number.
Most Common Entities
| Symbol | HTML Code | HTML Entity | Unicode | CSS Code | Hex Code | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| & | & | & | U+00026 | \0026 | & | Ampersand |
| * | * | * | U+0002A | \002A | * | Asterisk |
| @ | @ | @ | U+00040 | \0040 | @ | Commercial At |
| % | % | % | U+00025 | \0025 | % | Percent Sign |
| ® | ® | ® | U+000AE | \00AE | ® | Registered Sign |
| © | © | © | U+000A9 | \00A9 | © | Copyright Sign |
| ™ | ™ | ™ | U+02122 | \2122 | ™ | Trade Mark Sign |
|   | | U+000A0 | \00A0 |   | No-break Space | |
| ° | ° | ° | U+000B0 | \00B0 | ° | Degree Sign |
| ℃ | ℃ | U+02103 | \2103 | ℃ | Degree Celsius | |
| ℉ | ℉ | U+02109 | \2109 | ℉ | Degree Fahrenheit |
Currency Symbols
| Symbol | HTML Code | HTML Entity | Unicode | CSS Code | Hex Code | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ | $ | $ | U+00024 | \0024 | $ | Dollar Sign |
| ¢ | ¢ | ¢ | U+000A2 | \00A2 | ¢ | Cent Sign |
| £ | £ | £ | U+000A3 | \00A3 | £ | Pound Sign |
| € | € | € | U+020AC | \20AC | € | Euro Sign |
| ¥ | ¥ | ¥ | U+000A5 | \00A5 | ¥ | Yen Sign |
| ₹ | ₹ | U+020B9 | \20B9 | ₹ | Indian Rupee Sign |
Random Unicodes
U+6F
Latin Small Letter O
U+18F
Latin Capital Letter Schwa
U+260
Latin Small Letter G With Hook
U+24
Dollar Sign
U+1A1
Latin Small Letter O With Horn
U+2E6
Modifier Letter High Tone Bar
U+2386
Enter Symbol
U+29FA
Double Plus
U+288F
Braille Pattern Dots-12348
U+294A
Left Barb Up Right Barb Down Harpoon
U+296F
Downwards Harpoon With Barb Left Beside Upwards Harpoon With Barb Right
U+2090
Latin Subscript Small Letter A