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Certain characters have special meanings in HTML, and therefore, will not be properly displayed by the browser. For example, if you wanted to use a less-than symbol in your text, you couldn't just type "<". The browser would interpret that symbol as the beginning of a tag, that it doesn't recognize, and ignore everything until it came to a greater-than symbol. To remedy this you can use the following reserved HTML characters.

  • < = <
  • > = >
  • & = &
  • " = "
  • (space) =
  • ® = ®
  • © = ©

The ASCII value can be used with the following syntax to represent almost any character from the Latin Alphabet No. 1. Syntax: &#n; (where n is the specified ASCII value) The following table is an overview of the ASCII-table with the HTML-coding and the corresponding characters. The more commonly used are in bold iso8859-1 table NAME CODE DESCRIPTION

  • A - Z Letters A-Z
  • [ [ Left square bracket
  • \ Reverse solidus (backslash)
  • ] ] Right square bracket
  • _ _ Horizontal bar
  • ` ` Acute accent
  • a - z Letters a-z
  • { { Left curly brace
  • | | Vertical bar
  • } } Right curly brace
  • ~ ~ Tilde
  • ? - Ÿ Unused non-breaking space
  • ¡ ¡ ¡ Inverted exclamation
  • ¢ ¢ ¢ Cent sign
  • £ £ £ Pound sterling
  • ¤ ¤ ¤ General currency sign
  • ¥ ¥ ¥ Yen sign
  • ¦ ¦ ¦ Broken vertical bar
  • § § § Section sign
  • ¨ ¨ ¨ Umlaut (dieresis)
  • © © © Copyright
  • ª ª ª Feminine ordinal
  • « « « Left angle quote, guillemotleft
  • ¬ ¬ ¬ Not sign ­ ­ ­ Soft hyphen
  • ® ® ® Registered trademark
  • ¯ ¯ ¯ Macron accent
  • ° ° ° Degree sign
  • ± ± ± Plus or minus
  • ² ² ² Superscript two
  • ³ ³ ³ Superscript three
  • ´ ´ ´ Acute accent
  • µ µ µ Micro sign
  • ¶ ¶ ¶ Paragraph sign
  • · · · Middle dot
  • ¸ ¸ ¸ Cedilla
  • ¹ ¹ ¹ Superscript one
  • º º º Masculine ordinal
  • » » » Right angle quote, guillemotright
  • ¼ ¼ ¼ Fraction one-fourth
  • ½ ½ ½ Fraction one-half
  • ¾ ¾ ¾ Fraction three-fourths
  • ¿ ¿ ¿ Inverted question mark
  • À À À Capital A, acute accent
  • Á Á Á Capital A, grave accent
  • Â Â Â Capital A, circumflex accent
  • Ã Ã Ã Capital A, tilde
  • Ä Ä Ä Capital A, ring
  • Å Å Å Capital A, dieresis / umlaut mark
  • Æ Æ Æ Capital AE dipthong (ligature)
  • Ç Ç Ç Capital C, cedilla
  • È È È Capital E, acute accent
  • É É É Capital E, grave accent
  • Ê Ê Ê Capital E, circumflex accent
  • Ë Ë Ë Capital E, dieresis / umlaut mark
  • Ì Ì Ì Capital I, acute accent
  • Í Í Í Capital I, grave accent
  • Î Î Î Capital I, circumflex accent
  • Ï Ï Ï Capital I, dieresis / umlaut mark
  • Ð Ð Ð Capital Eth, Icelandic
  • Ñ Ñ Ñ Capital N, tilde
  • Ò Ò Ò Capital O, acute accent
  • Ó Ó Ó Capital O, grave accent
  • Ô Ô Ô Capital O, circumflex accent
  • Õ Õ Õ Capital O, tilde
  • Ö Ö Ö Capital O, dieresis / umlaut mark
  • × × × Multiply sign
  • Ø Ø Ø Capital O, slash
  • Ù Ù Ù Capital U, acute accent
  • Ú Ú Ú Capital U, grave accent
  • Û Û Û Capital U, circumflex accent
  • Ü Ü Ü Capital U, dieresis / umlaut mark
  • Ý Ý Ý Capital Y, acute accent
  • Þ Þ Þ Capital THORN, Icelandic
  • ß ß ß Small sharp s, German sz ligature
  • à à à Small a, acute accent
  • á á á Small a, grave accent
  • â â â Small a, circumflex accent
  • ã ã ã Small a, tilde
  • ä ä ä Small a, tilde
  • å å å Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
  • æ æ æ Small ae dipthong (ligature)
  • ç ç ç Small c, cedilla
  • è è è Small e, acute accent
  • é é é Small e, grave accent
  • ê ê ê Small e, circumflex accent
  • ë ë ë Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
  • ì ì ì Small i, grave accent &iaccute
  • í í Small i, accute accent
  • î î î Small i, circumflex accent
  • ï ï ï Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
  • ð ð ð Small eth, Icelandic
  • ñ ñ ñ Small n, tilde
  • ò ò ò Small o, acute accent
  • ó ó ó Small o, grave accent
  • ô ô ô Small o, circumflex accent
  • õ õ õ Small o, tilde
  • ö ö ö Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
  • ÷ ÷ ÷ Division sign
  • 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, dieresis or umlaut mark
  • ý ý ý Small y, acute accent
  • þ þ þ Small thorn, Icelandic
  • ÿ ÿ ÿ Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark


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