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+23A
Latin Capital Letter A With Stroke
U+B0
Degree Sign
U+F8
Latin Small Letter O With Stroke
U+34B
Combining Homothetic Above
U+29D
Latin Small Letter J With Crossed-tail
U+316
Combining Grave Accent Below
U+2640
Female Sign
U+219B
Rightwards Arrow With Stroke
U+285E
Braille Pattern Dots-23457
U+286B
Braille Pattern Dots-12467
U+265C
Black Chess Rook
U+22E2
Not Square Image Of Or Equal To