A Complete Guide to Web Design

Character Entities 85

HTML

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Character Entities

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Table 5-5 presents the defined standard, proposed, and several nonstandard, but
generally supported, character entities for HTML. Not all 256 characters in the ISO
character set appear in the table. Missing ones are not recognized by the browser
as either named or numeric entities.

Entities for which the conformance column is blank are part of the HTML 2.0 and
later standards and will work with nearly all available browsers. Characters whose
conformance column contains “4.0” are supported in the HTML 4.0 Specification
only. As of this writing, they are supported by versions 4.0 of Netscape Navigator
and Internet Explorer. An “N” in the conformance column indicates that the char-
acter is a nonstandard entity.

Table 5-5: Character Entities

Number Name Symbol Description Conformance

	 Horizontal tab


 Line feed


 Carriage return

  Space

!! Exclamation point

" " " Quotation mark

# # Hash mark

$ $ Dollar sign

% % Percent sign

& & & Ampersand

' ' Apostrophe

( ( Left parenthesis

) ) Right parenthesis

* * Asterisk

+ + Plus sign

, , Comma

- - Hyphen

.. Period

/ / Slash

0–

9

0-9 Digits 0-9

: : Colon

; ; Semicolon

< < < Less than

= = Equal sign

> > > Greater than

?? Question mark

@ @ Commercial at sign

A–

Z

A – Z Letters A – Z