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+2C0
Modifier Letter Glottal Stop
U+30F
Combining Double Grave Accent
U+28C
Latin Small Letter Turned V
U+DE
Latin Capital Letter Thorn
U+F1
Latin Small Letter N With Tilde
U+132
Latin Capital Ligature Ij
U+2B40
Equals Sign Above Leftwards Arrow
U+2BD5
Pluto Form Four
U+28D0
Braille Pattern Dots-578
U+204D
Black Rightwards Bullet
U+29F9
Big Reverse Solidus
U+243A