Entities in HTML documents allow characters to be entered that can't easily be typed on an ordinary keyboard. They take the form of an ampersand (&), an identifying string, and a terminating semi-colon (;). There's a complete reference here; some of the more common and useful ones are shown below.
| HTML Entities |
| |
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no-break space |
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' |
' |
single quote, apostrophe |
| – |
– |
en dash |
" |
" |
quotation mark |
| — |
— |
em dash |
′ |
′ |
prime; minutes; feet |
| … |
… |
horizontal ellipsis |
″ |
″ |
double prime; seconds; inches |
| © |
© |
Copyright symbol |
‘ |
‘ |
left single quote |
| ® |
® |
Registered symbol |
’ |
’ |
right single quote |
| ™ |
™ |
Trademark symbol |
“ |
“ |
left double quote |
| † |
† |
dagger |
” |
” |
right double quote |
| ‡ |
‡ |
double dagger |
« |
« |
left angle quote |
| ¶ |
¶ |
paragraph sign |
» |
» |
right angle quote |
| § |
§ |
section sign |
× |
× |
multiplication symbol |
| ↑ |
↑ |
up arrow |
↓ |
↓ |
down arrow |
| ← |
← |
left arrow |
→ |
→ |
right arrow |
| ⇐ |
⇐ |
double left arrow |
⇒ |
⇒ |
double right arrow |
| ↔ |
↔ |
left right arrow |
⇔ |
⇔ |
double left right arrow |
The table below shows how accented characters can be built up by subsituting a base character into the various accent entities in place of the underscore ('_'):
| Accented Characters |
| grave accent |
&_grave; |
À |
à |
È |
è |
Ì |
ì |
Ò |
ò |
Ù |
ù |
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| acute accent |
&_acute; |
Á |
á |
É |
é |
Í |
í |
Ó |
ó |
Ú |
ú |
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Ý |
ý |
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| circumflex accent |
&_circ; |
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â |
Ê |
ê |
Î |
î |
Ô |
ô |
Û |
û |
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| umlaut mark |
&_uml; |
Ä |
ä |
Ë |
ë |
Ï |
ï |
Ö |
ö |
Ü |
ü |
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Ÿ |
ÿ |
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| tilde |
&_tilde; |
à |
ã |
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Õ |
õ |
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Ñ |
ñ |
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| ring |
&_ring; |
Å |
å |
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| slash |
&_slash; |
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Ø |
ø |
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| cedilla |
&_cedil; |
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Ç |
ç |
