HTML entities

What are HTML entities?

Some characters are reserved in HTML. For example, if you use < or > symbols in your text, the browser may assume them as the markup. To solve this issue, you can use HTML entities.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>HTML entities</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h4>This will be shown as a heading</h4>
    &lt;h4&gt;This will be shown as the markup&lt;/h4&gt;
</body>
</html>

Output

This will be shown as a heading

<h4>This will be shown as the markup</h4>

Frequently used HTML entities

Symbol	Entity	Description
<	<	Less than
>	>	Greater than
&	&	Ampersand
		Non-breaking space
'	'	Apostrophe
"	"	Quotation mark
~	&tilde;	Tilde
©	©	Copyright
®	®	Registered trademark
™	™	Trademark
€	€	Euro
£	£	Pound
¢	¢	Cent
¥	¥	Yen