HTML Entities and Special Characters

 

In HTML, entities are used to display reserved characters, symbols, or special characters that cannot be typed directly or may be misunderstood by the browser.

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🔹 Why Use HTML Entities?

• Some characters like <, >, & are reserved in HTML and will be interpreted as code if written directly.
• Entities help you display these characters correctly on the page.

Example

<p>5 &lt; 10 and 10 &gt; 5</p>

<p>Use &amp; to write "and".</p>

<p>Price: 100 &euro;</p>

<p>&copy; 2025 Your Name. All rights reserved.</p>

Output:

5 < 10 and 10 > 5
Use & to write "and".
Price: 100 €
© Your Name. All rights reserved.

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🔹 Using Unicode with &#code;

You can also use numeric character references (decimal or hex):

·         © → ©

·         ® → ®