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+2E4
Modifier Letter Small Reversed Glottal Stop
U+2D7
Modifier Letter Minus Sign
U+6B
Latin Small Letter K
U+146
Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla
U+34F
Combining Grapheme Joiner
U+15D
Latin Small Letter S With Circumflex
U+2650
Sagittarius
U+2018
Left Single Quotation Mark
U+20BE
Lari Sign
U+2238
Dot Minus
U+2007
Figure Space
U+299D
Measured Right Angle With Dot