Special Character Reference Table




Because HTML uses certain characters to format text and to convey meaning to the browser, it is often necessary to use special characters to display these characters in a Web page. They can also be useful for displaying certain characters that are not included on most keyboards. These special characters can always be denoted with their numeric values, and sometimes be specified by certain strings. I've shown both in the following table of such special characters.




Character Name Character Numeric Value Character String Value Character
Less Than &#060; &lt; <
Greater Than &#062; &gt; >
Ampersand &#038; &amp; &
Non-breaking Space &#160; &nbsp; |     |
( 5 spaces )
Currency &#164; &curren; ¤
British Pound &#163; &pound; £
Japanese Yen &#165; &yen; ¥
Cent Sign &#162; &cent; ¢
Double Quotation Mark &#034; &quot; "
Degree Sign &#176; &deg; °
Plus-or-Minus Sign &#177; &plusmn; ±
Superscript 1 &#185; &sup1;
Superscript 2 &#178; &sup2;
Superscript 3 &#179; &sup3;
Fraction 1/4 &#188; &frac14; ¼
Fraction 1/2 &#189; &frac12; -or- &half; ½
Fraction 3/4 &#190; &frac34; ¾
Micro Sign &#181; &micro; µ
Copyright Sign &#169; &copy; ©
Registered Trademark Sign &#174; &reg; ®
Paragraph Sign ( Pilcrow ) &#182; &para;
Section Sign &#167; &sect; §
Inverted Question Mark &#191; &iquest; ¿
Inverted Exclamation Mark &#161; &iexcl; ¡
Umlaut &#168; &uml; -or- &die; ¨




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