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Published Mar 22, 2022 • Updated Oct 11, 2023

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Entities are character sequences placed in the


text of an HTML document to print out reserved
characters which may otherwise be interpreted
as HTML code by a browser, or other special
characters that would be di!cult to generate
with a typical keyboard. In fact, using reference
numbers, an entity can represent any Unicode
character. When parsing the HTML, a browser
replaces the entity’s character sequence with
the character it represents.

Syntax
Entities are case-sensitive and can take one of
three forms.

The "rst form references an entity by name:

&name;

The second form references it by the decimal


Unicode number:

&#number;

The third represents it with the hexadecimal


Unicode number, often with leading zeros:

&#xnumber;

So the copyright entity ( © ) can be represented


as © , &#169 or © .

Entity Values
There are many HTML entities. The following are
some common ones:

2nd
Entity Name 1st Form 3rd Form
Form
Non-breaking
     
space
Less-than sign
< < <
<
Greater-than
&gt; &#62; &#x0003E;
sign >
Ampersand & &amp; &#38; &#x00026;

Quote " &quot; &#34; &#x00022;

Apostrophe ' &apos; &#39; &#x00027;

Copyright © &copy; &#169; &#x000A9;

Degree ° &deg; &#176; &#x000B0;

Euro € &euro; &#8364; &#x020AC;


Bullet
&bullet; &#8226; &#x02022;
character •

More can be found in this extensive HTML 5


entity reference.

The Tab Entity


There is an entity &Tab; (or &#9; ) which
nominally produces a tab character. However, it
will not behave as expected because HTML
collapses whitespace where it appears in text
with the exception of the non-breaking space
entity, &nbsp; . So to render a tab in HTML text,
it needs to be wrapped within a <pre> tag to
preserve the whitespace.

<p>The tab entity &Tab; in this sentence

<pre>
<p>The tab entity &Tab; in this sentenc
</pre>

Output:

Alternatively, four &nbsp; entities can be used.

<p>The Tab entity &Tab; in this sentence

<p>The spaces &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in

Entities

Greek Symbols
Used in scienti"c, mathematical, and
technological applications.

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