A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Symbol Entities Codes

character entity name entity number description
      Inserts a non-breaking blank space
& & & Ampersand
" " " quotation mark
© © © copyright symbol
® ® ® registered symbol
™ ™ trademark symbol
“ “ Opening Double Quotes
” ” Closing Double Quotes
‘ ‘ Opening Single Quote Mark
’ ’ Closing Single Quote Mark
« « « angle quotation mark (left)
» » » angle quotation mark (right)
‹ ‹ single left angle quotation
› › single right angle quotation
§ § § Section Symbol
¶ ¶ Paragraph symbol
• • Big List Dot
· · · Medium List Dot
… … horizontal ellipsis
| | vertical bar
¦ ¦ ¦ broken vertical bar
– – en-dash
— — em-dash
character entity name entity number description
¤ ¤ ¤ Generic currency symbol
$ $ dollar symbol
¢ ¢ ¢ Cent symbol
£ £ £ Pound
¥ ¥ ¥ Yen
€ € Euro symbol
character entity name entity number description
< &lt; &#60; Less than
> &gt; &#62; Greater than
&le; &#8804; Less than or Equal to
&ge; &#8805; Greater than or Equal to
× &times; &#215; Multiplication symbol
÷ &divide; &#247; Division symbol
&minus; &#8722; Minus symbol
± &plusmn; &#177; Plus/minus symbol
&ne; &#8800; Not Equal
¹ &sup1; &#185; Superscript 1
² &sup2; &#178; Superscript 2
³ &sup3; &#179; Superscript 3
½ &frac12; &#189; Fraction ½
¼ &frac14; &#188; Fraction ¼
¾ &frac34; &#190; Fraction ¾
&permil; &#8240; per mille
° &deg; &#176; Degree symbol
&radic; &#8730; square root
&infin; &#8734; Infinity
character entity name entity number description
&larr; &#8592; left arrow
&uarr; &#8593; up arrow
&rarr; &#8594; right arrow
&darr; &#8595; down arrow
&harr; &#8596; left right arrow
&crarr; &#8629; carriage return arrow
&lceil; &#8968; left ceiling
&rceil; &#8969; right ceiling
&lfloor; &#8970; left floor
&rfloor; &#8971; right floor
character entity name entity number description
&spades; &#9824; spade
&clubs; &#9827; club
&hearts; &#9829; heart
&diams; &#9830; diamond
&loz; &#9674; lozenge
&dagger; &#8224; dagger
&Dagger; &#8225; double dagger
¡ &iexcl; &#161; inverted exclamation mark
¿ &iquest; &#191; inverted question mark

About EntityCode

The idea came from my constant need to add those hard to remember HTML entity codes, such as the copyright symbol ( © ), every time I’m developing a new website or writing a new article. Usually, I either open one of my previously done webpages and copy what I need, or I go to w3schools to search in their long lists for what I want. I don’t know if I’m the only one doing this, but I know for sure that both methods wasted my time and exhausted my eyes.

Therefore, I decided to create a website that eliminates the frustration and the wasted time caused by this simple task. I know that a full list of all the entities along with their names and codes is a must have for any web developer, but in real development scenarios only a handful of HTML symbols are actually used, so why waste time and energy trying to find what we need by reading long lists written in small hard to read fonts.

I hope that you find EntityCode helpful for your web development needs.

Credits

My thanks go to:

  • w3schools - For providing all the resources and tutorials.
  • Klaus Hartl - For his jQuery plugin for accessible, unobtrusive tabs.

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