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+15C
Latin Capital Letter S With Circumflex
U+2BD
Modifier Letter Reversed Comma
U+B1
Plus-minus Sign
U+2E6
Modifier Letter High Tone Bar
U+A0
No-break Space
U+199
Latin Small Letter K With Hook
U+20C7
U+23E1
Bottom Tortoise Shell Bracket
U+258D
Left Three Eighths Block
U+2556
Box Drawings Down Double And Left Single
U+25D7
Right Half Black Circle
U+2AD6
Superset Above Superset