Html Entities

HTML entities are strigns inside HTML code that start with ampersand & and end with semicolon ;. They allow you to add wide variety of characters to your HTML code.

For example < and > characters are reserved in HTML because they are used to enclose HTML tags. But if you need to display one of them on the page you can use > to display > and < for <.

HTML entities can be referenced by name, like we did with > and &lt, but they also have numeric references: hexadecimal and decimal.

For examle > can also be referenced as > and < can be referenced as <.

Some of the entities don’t have named reference and can only be referenced by their decimal or hexadecimal reference. Like for example celsius sign ℃

Here is a list of some popular HTML entities:

Character	Entity	Hexadecimal	Decimal	Name
©	©	©	©	COPYRIGHT SIGN
®	®®	®	®	REGISTERED SIGN
™	™	™	™	TRADE MARK SIGN
>	>	>	>	GREATER-THAN SIGN
<	&lt;	&#x0003C;	&#60;	LESS-THAN SIGN
;	&semi;	&#x0003B;	&#59;	SEMICOLON
&	&amp;	&#x00026;	&#38;	AMPERSAND
”	&quot;	&#x00022;	&#34;	QUOTATION MARK
#	&num;	&#x00023;	&#35;	NUMBER SIGN
★	&starf;&bigstar;	&#x02605;	&#9733;	BLACK STAR
☆	&star;	&#x02606;	&#9734;	WHITE STAR
✂		&#x02702;	&#9986;	BLACK SCISSORS
✓	&check;&checkmark;	&#x02713;	&#10003;	CHECK MARK
✗	&cross;	&#x02717;	&#10007;	BALLOT X
✩		&#x02729;	&#10025;	STRESS OUTLINED WHITE STAR
✪		&#x0272A;	&#10026;	CIRCLED WHITE STAR
❞		&#x0275E;	&#10078;	HEAVY DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
❤		&#x02764;	&#10084;	HEAVY BLACK HEART
←	&larr;&leftarrow;&LeftArrow;&slarr;&ShortLeftArrow;	&#x02190;	&#8592;	LEFTWARDS ARROW
↑	&uarr;&uparrow;&UpArrow;&ShortUpArrow;	&#x02191;	&#8593;	UPWARDS ARROW
→	&rarr;&rightarrow;&RightArrow;&srarr;&ShortRightArrow;	&#x02192;	&#8594;	RIGHTWARDS ARROW
↓	&darr;&downarrow;&DownArrow;&ShortDownArrow;	&#x02193;	&#8595;	DOWNWARDS ARROW
€	&euro;	&#x020AC;	&#8364;	EURO SIGN
▶		&#x025B6;	&#9654;	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
▽	&xdtri;&bigtriangledown;	&#x025BD;	&#9661;	WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
◉		&#x025C9;	&#9673;	FISHEYE
∑	&sum; &Sum;	&#x02211;	&#8721;	N-ARY SUMMATION
ℹ		&#x02139;	&#8505;	INFORMATION SOURCE
№	&numero;	&#x02116;	&#8470;	NUMERO SIGN
℗	&copysr;	&#x02117;	&#8471;	SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT
℃		&#x02103;	&#8451;	DEGREE CELSIUS
℉		&#x02109;	&#8457;	DEGREE FAHRENHEIT