Exploring HTML Entities: Special Characters and Symbols in HTML

HTML entities are special characters that have a specific meaning in HTML, and are used to display or represent certain characters, symbols, or special characters in a web page.

Some common HTML entities include:

• <: represents the less-than sign (<)
• >: represents the greater-than sign (>)
• &: - represents the ampersand (&)
• ": - represents the double quotation mark (")
• ': represents the single quotation mark (')

These entities are used to ensure that special characters are displayed correctly in the browser.

As an example:

• if you want to display the symbol for a trademark (™), you can use the HTML entity ™.

Some Impotant HTML Entities

Character Entity	Symbol	Description
&nbsp		Non-breaking space
&amp	&	Ampersand
&lt	<	Less-than sign
&gt	>	Greater-than sign
&cent	¢	Cent sign
&pound	£	Pound sign
&yen	¥	Yen sign
&euro	€	Euro sign
&copy	©	Copyright symbol
&reg	®	Registered trademark symbol
&trade	™	Trademark symbol
&dagger	†	Dagger
&Dagger	‡	Double dagger
&sect	§	Section symbol
&para	¶	Pilcrow (paragraph sign)
&hellip	…	Horizontal ellipsis
&ndash	–	En dash
&mdash	—	Em dash
&lsquo	‘	Left single quotation mark
&rsquo	’	Right single quotation mark
&ldquo	“	Left double quotation mark
&rdquo	”	Right double quotation mark

Combining Diacritical Marks

Here are some HTML entities that you can use to add combining diacritical marks to characters

Character	HTML Entity	Description
é	é	Small letter E with acute accent
è	è	Small letter E with grave accent
ê	ê	Small letter E with circumflex accent
ë	ë	Small letter E with diaeresis
ē	ē	Small letter E with macron
ñ	ñ	Small letter N with tilde
ō	ō	Small letter O with macron
ı̇	ı̈	Small letter I with dot above and diaeresis
ï	ï	Small letter I with diaeresis
ü	ü	Small letter U with diaeresis
ū	ū	Small letter U with macron
ǎ	ă	Small letter A with breve
ċ	ċ	Small letter C with dot above
ḍ	&ddot;	Small letter D with dot below
ġ	ġ	Small letter G with dot above
ḥ	&hdot;	Small letter H with dot below
ḳ	&kdot;	Small letter K with dot below
ḷ	&ldot;	Small letter L with dot below
ṃ	&mdot;	Small letter M with dot below
ṇ	&ndot;	Small letter N with dot below
ř	ŕ	Small letter R with caron
ś	ś	Small letter S with acute accent
ṣ	⋅	Small letter S with dot below
ṭ	⃛	Small letter T with dot below
ů	ů	Small letter U with ring above