Special HTML Characters
Most Common ASCII Codes
Special HTML characters, also known as ASCII Codes short for American Standard Code for Information Interexchange, is an industry standard character set consisting of:
- Standard ASCII Codes
- Uses seven bits of code characters
- Equaling 128 characters
- Defines codes for average letters and numbers used by computers
- Extended ASCII Codes
- 32 control characters
- 94 graphic characters plus
- The space character and the delete character
- Defines codes for extra characters, such as a special symbols, foreign language letters and drawing characters
Many special HTML characters are either not found on conventional keyboards or when they are found and used, HTML editors and browsers do not always display them correctly. To avoid problems, webmasters use special HTML character codes.
How To Use Special HTML Character Codes
Some of the most common Special HTML character codes include ampersand (&), copyright code (©), trademark (™) and quotation mark ("). Those, and other HTML symbols, are shown in the table below.
Example
To properly display the apostrophe and ampersand in this sentence:
It's easy to use special HTML characters & HTML symbols.
The code in your HTML document should be:
It's easy to use special HTML characters & HTML symbols.
To avoid mistakes, copy the code directly from the 2nd column below and paste it into the desired location in your HTML document.
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Character |
HTML Code |
Can Also Use |
Definition |
� -  |
Unused | ||
| 	 | Horizontal tab | ||
| | Line feed | ||
|  -  | Unused | ||
| | Carriage Return | ||
|  -  | Unused | ||
|
Space |   | Space | |
|
! | ! | Exclamation mark | |
| " |
" |
" |
Quotation mark |
| # | # | Number sign | |
|
$ | $ | Dollar sign | |
|
% | % | Percent sign | |
| & | & |
& |
Ampersand |
|
' | ' | Apostrophe | |
|
( | ( | Left parenthesis | |
| ) | ) | Right parenthesis | |
| * | * | Asterisk | |
|
+ | + | Plus sign | |
|
, | , | Comma | |
|
- | - | Hyphen | |
|
. | . | Period (fullstop) | |
| / | / | Solidus (slash) | |
| : | : | Colon | |
|
; | ; | Semi-colon | |
|
< | < |
< |
Less than |
|
= | = | Equals sign | |
|
> | > |
> |
Greater than |
| ? | ? | Question mark | |
| @ | @ | Commercial at | |
| [ | [ | Left square bracket | |
| \ | \ | Reverse solidus (backslash) | |
| ] | ] | Right square bracket | |
| ^ | ^ | Caret | |
|
_ | _ | Horizontal bar (underscore) | |
| ` | ` | Acute accent | |
| { | { | Left curly brace | |
| | | | | Vertical bar | |
| } | } | Right curly brace | |
| ~ | ~ | Tilde | |
|  -  | Unused | ||
|
‚ |
‚ | Low single comma quotation mark | |
| ƒ |
ƒ | Function sign | |
| „ |
„ | Low double comma quotation mark | |
| … |
… | Ellipses | |
|
† |
† | Dagger | |
|
‡ |
‡ | Double dagger | |
| ˆ |
ˆ | Caret | |
|
‰ |
‰ | Per mile sign | |
| Š |
Š | Capital S Hacek | |
| ‹ |
‹ | Less-than sign | |
| Π|
Π| Capital OE ligature | |
|  -  | Unused | ||
|
‘ |
‘ | Single beginning quotation mark | |
| ’ |
’ | Single ending quotation mark | |
| “ |
“ | Double beginning quotation mark | |
| ” |
” | Double ending quotation mark | |
| • |
• | Dot, middle | |
|
– |
– | En dash | |
|
— |
— | Em dash | |
|
˜ |
˜ | Tilde | |
|
™ |
™ | Trademark symbol | |
| š |
š | Small s Hacek | |
| › |
› | Greater-than sign | |
| œ |
œ | Small oe ligature | |
|  - ž | Unused | ||
|
Ÿ |
Ÿ | Capital Y, diæresis / umlaut | |
|   |
|
Non-breaking Space | |
| ¡ | ¡ | Inverted exclamation | |
| ¢ | ¢ | Cent sign | |
|
£ | £ | Pound sterling | |
| ¤ | ¤ | General currency sign | |
| ¥ | ¥ | Yen sign | |
|
¦ | ¦ | Broken vertical bar | |
| § | § | Section sign | |
| ¨ | ¨ | Diæresis / Umlaut | |
| © | © | Copyright | |
|
ª | ª | Feminine ordinal | |
| « | « | Left angle quote, guillemot left | |
| ¬ | ¬ | Not sign | |
|
| ­ |
­ |
Soft hyphen |
|
® | ® | Registered trademark | |
| ¯ | ¯ | Macron accent | |
| ° | ° | Degree sign | |
|
± | ± | Plus or minus | |
| ² | ² | Superscript two | |
| ³ | ³ | Superscript three | |
| ´ | ´ | Acute accent | |
| µ | µ | Micro sign | |
|
¶ | ¶ | Paragraph sign |
