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+28F
Latin Letter Small Capital Y
U+17E
Latin Small Letter Z With Caron
U+290
Latin Small Letter Z With Retroflex Hook
U+348
Combining Double Vertical Line Below
U+CA
Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex
U+23F
Latin Small Letter S With Swash Tail
U+2555
Box Drawings Down Single And Left Double
U+2206
Increment
U+2926
South West Arrow With Hook
U+2951
Up Barb Left Down Barb Left Harpoon
U+2ACD
Square Left Open Box Operator
U+2229
Intersection