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+139
Latin Capital Letter L With Acute
U+25C
Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
U+1A4
Latin Capital Letter P With Hook
U+2CA
Modifier Letter Acute Accent
U+47
Latin Capital Letter G
U+6F
Latin Small Letter O
U+242B
U+2958
Upwards Harpoon With Barb Left To Bar
U+2197
North East Arrow
U+21C9
Rightwards Paired Arrows
U+2692
Hammer And Pick
U+2414
Symbol For Device Control Four