Most Common HTML Entities

Jumat, 19 April 2024

These are some useful HTML entities:

Result Description "HTML Entity Name" "HTML Unicode Values"

> "greater than" > >

< "less than" < <

& "ampersand" &

" "double quotation mark" "

' "single quotation mark" '

« » Guillemets « » « »

® "Registered trademark" ® ® (R)

° Degree(s) ° °

± "Plus/minus" ± ±

½ "Fractional half" ½ ¼ 1/2

– "En dash" – – - for ranges

— "Em (long) dash"— —

† ‡ "Single & double daggers" &dagger; &Dagger; † ‡ * and **

• "Bullet" • • *

… "Ellipsis" … …

™ Trademark ™ ™ (tm)

≈ "Almost equal to" ≈ ≈ ~

≠ "Not equal to" ≠ ≠ !=

≤ ≥ "Less/greater than or equal to <= or >=" ≤ ≥ ≤ ≥

For older browsers, you might need to provide fallback options. For example, you could use HTML Entity Numeric code if the browser doesn't support HTML Entity Name, you could use an image of the character instead of the entity if the browser doesn’t support it, you can also use JavaScript to detect browser compatibility and dynamically replace entities with alternative representations if needed.
Improve accessibility: Screen readers and other assistive technologies rely on character entities to interpret special characters correctly.
HTML Entity is a string between an ampersand (&) and a semicolon (;) to refer to the corresponding character.
Type in the website editor only HTML Entity in Verdana font face / font family / font type and Medium font size, for example ™ and ™.