A Complete Guide to Web Design

86 Chapter 5 – HTML Overview

Character Entities

Web Design in a Nutshell, eMatter Edition

[ [ Left square bracket

\ \ Backslash

] ] Right square bracket

^ ^ Caret

_ _ Underscore

` ` Grave accent

a–

z

a-z Letters a – z

{ { Left curly brace

| | Vertical bar

} } Right curly brace

~ ~ Tilde

‚ , Comma N

ƒ ƒ Florin N

„ ” Right double quote N

… ... Elipsis N

† † Dagger N

‡ ‡ Double dagger N

ˆ ˆ Circumflex N

‰ ‰ Permil N

Š _ Underscore N

‹ < Less than sign N

ΠΠCapital OE ligature N

‘ ‘ Left single quote N

’ ’ Right single quote N

“ “ Left double quote N

” ” Right double quote N

• • Bullet N

– – En dash N

— — Em dash N

˜ ~ Tilde N

™ ™ Trademark N

š _ Underscore N

› > Greater than sign N

œ œ Lowercase oe ligature N

Ÿ Ÿ Capital Y, umlaut N

    Nonbreaking space 4.0

¡ ¡ ¡ Inverted exlamation mark 4.0

¢ ¢ ¢ Cent sign 4.0

Table 5-5: Character Entities (continued)

Number Name Symbol Description Conformance