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HTML

Entities
List of Content:
1. HTML Entities
2. Non-breaking Space
3. Some Useful HTML Character Entities
4. Combining Diacritical Marks
HTML Entities
● Some characters are reserved in HTML.

● If you use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your text, the browser
might mix them with tags. To display a less than sign (<) we must write: &lt;
or &#60;

● Character entities are used to display reserved characters in HTML.

● A character entity looks like this:

&entity_name;
OR

&#entity_number;
Non-breaking Space
● A commonly used entity in HTML is the non-breaking space: &nbsp;

● A non-breaking space is a space that will not break into a new line.

● Two words separated by a non-breaking space will stick together (not break into
a new line). This is handy when breaking the words might be disruptive.

● Examples:
§ 10
10 km/h
10 PM

● Another common use of the non-breaking space is to prevent browsers from


truncating spaces in HTML pages.

● If you write 10 spaces in your text, the browser will remove 9 of them. To add real
spaces to your text, you can use the &nbsp; character entity.
Some very useful Character Entities
Example:
Combining Diacritical Marks
● A diacritical mark is a "glyph" added to a letter.

● Some diacritical marks, like grave ( ̀) and acute ( ́) are called accents.

● Diacritical marks can appear both above and below a letter, inside a
letter, and between two letters.

● Diacritical marks can be used in combination with alphanumeric


characters to produce a character that is not present in the character set
(encoding) used in the page.
Example:
THANK YOU

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