Reserved Characters in HTML
HTML and XHTML processors must support the five special characters listed in
the table below:
Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
---|---|---|---|
" | " | " | quotation mark |
' | ' | ' | apostrophe |
& | & | & | ampersand |
< | < | < | less-than |
> | > | > | greater-than |
Note: Entity names are case sensitive!
ISO 8859-1 Symbols
Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
---|---|---|---|
  | | non-breaking space | |
¡ | ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation mark |
¢ | ¢ | ¢ | cent |
£ | £ | £ | pound |
¤ | ¤ | ¤ | currency |
¥ | ¥ | ¥ | yen |
¦ | ¦ | ¦ | broken vertical bar |
§ | § | § | section |
¨ | ¨ | ¨ | spacing diaeresis |
© | © | © | copyright |
ª | ª | ª | feminine ordinal indicator |
« | « | « | angle quotation mark (left) |
¬ | ¬ | ¬ | negation |
| ­ | ­ | soft hyphen |
® | ® | ® | registered trademark |
¯ | ¯ | ¯ | spacing macron |
° | ° | ° | degree |
± | ± | ± | plus-or-minus |
² | ² | ² | superscript 2 |
³ | ³ | ³ | superscript 3 |
´ | ´ | ´ | spacing acute |
µ | µ | µ | micro |
¶ | ¶ | ¶ | paragraph |
· | · | · | middle dot |
¸ | ¸ | ¸ | spacing cedilla |
¹ | ¹ | ¹ | superscript 1 |
º | º | º | masculine ordinal indicator |
» | » | » | angle quotation mark (right) |
¼ | ¼ | ¼ | fraction 1/4 |
½ | ½ | ½ | fraction 1/2 |
¾ | ¾ | ¾ | fraction 3/4 |
¿ | ¿ | ¿ | inverted question mark |
× | × | × | multiplication |
÷ | ÷ | ÷ | division |
ISO 8859-1 Characters
Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
---|---|---|---|
À | À | À | capital a, grave accent |
Á | Á | Á | capital a, acute accent |
 |  |  | capital a, circumflex accent |
à | à | à | capital a, tilde |
Ä | Ä | Ä | capital a, umlaut mark |
Å | Å | Å | capital a, ring |
Æ | Æ | Æ | capital ae |
Ç | Ç | Ç | capital c, cedilla |
È | È | È | capital e, grave accent |
É | É | É | capital e, acute accent |
Ê | Ê | Ê | capital e, circumflex accent |
Ë | Ë | Ë | capital e, umlaut mark |
Ì | Ì | Ì | capital i, grave accent |
Í | Í | Í | capital i, acute accent |
Î | Î | Î | capital i, circumflex accent |
Ï | Ï | Ï | capital i, umlaut mark |
Ð | Ð | Ð | capital eth, Icelandic |
Ñ | Ñ | Ñ | capital n, tilde |
Ò | Ò | Ò | capital o, grave accent |
Ó | Ó | Ó | capital o, acute accent |
Ô | Ô | Ô | capital o, circumflex accent |
Õ | Õ | Õ | capital o, tilde |
Ö | Ö | Ö | capital o, umlaut mark |
Ø | Ø | Ø | capital o, slash |
Ù | Ù | Ù | capital u, grave accent |
Ú | Ú | Ú | capital u, acute accent |
Û | Û | Û | capital u, circumflex accent |
Ü | Ü | Ü | capital u, umlaut mark |
Ý | Ý | Ý | capital y, acute accent |
Þ | Þ | Þ | capital THORN, Icelandic |
ß | ß | ß | small sharp s, German |
à | à | à | small a, grave accent |
á | á | á | small a, acute accent |
â | â | â | small a, circumflex accent |
ã | ã | ã | small a, tilde |
ä | ä | ä | small a, umlaut mark |
å | å | å | small a, ring |
æ | æ | æ | small ae |
ç | ç | ç | small c, cedilla |
è | è | è | small e, grave accent |
é | é | é | small e, acute accent |
ê | ê | ê | small e, circumflex accent |
ë | ë | ë | small e, umlaut mark |
ì | ì | ì | small i, grave accent |
í | í | í | small i, acute accent |
î | î | î | small i, circumflex accent |
ï | ï | ï | small i, umlaut mark |
ð | ð | ð | small eth, Icelandic |
ñ | ñ | ñ | small n, tilde |
ò | ò | ò | small o, grave accent |
ó | ó | ó | small o, acute accent |
ô | ô | ô | small o, circumflex accent |
õ | õ | õ | small o, tilde |
ö | ö | ö | small o, umlaut mark |
ø | ø | ø | small o, slash |
ù | ù | ù | small u, grave accent |
ú | ú | ú | small u, acute accent |
û | û | û | small u, circumflex accent |
ü | ü | ü | small u, umlaut mark |
ý | ý | ý | small y, acute accent |
þ | þ | þ | small thorn, Icelandic |
ÿ | ÿ | ÿ | small y, umlaut mark |