Special Entities
The following table gives the character entity reference, decimalcharacter reference, and hexadecimal character reference.
With the exception of HTML 2.0's ", &, <, and >, these entities are all new in HTML 4.0 and may not be supported by old browsers. Support in recent browsers is good.
| Character | Entity | Decimal | Hex | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| quotation mark = APL quote | " | " | " | " |
| ampersand | & | & | & | & |
| less-than sign | < | < | < | < |
| greater-than sign | > | > | > | > |
| Latin capital ligature OE | Œ | Œ | Œ | Œ |
| Latin small ligature oe | œ | œ | œ | œ |
| Latin capital letter S with caron | Š | Š | Š | Š |
| Latin small letter s with caron | š | š | š | š |
| Latin capital letter Y with diaeresis | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ |
| modifier letter circumflex accent | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ |
| small tilde | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ |
| en space |   |   |   | |
| em space |   |   |   | |
| thin space |   |   |   | |
| zero width non-joiner | ‌ | ‌ | ‌ | |
| zero width joiner | ‍ | ‍ | ‍ | |
| left-to-right mark | ‎ | ‎ | ‎ | |
| right-to-left mark | ‏ | ‏ | ‏ | |
| en dash | – | – | – | – |
| em dash | — | — | — | — |
| left single quotation mark | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ |
| right single quotation mark | ’ | ’ | ’ | ’ |
| single low-9 quotation mark | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ |
| left double quotation mark | “ | “ | “ | “ |
| right double quotation mark | ” | ” | ” | ” |
| double low-9 quotation mark | „ | „ | „ | „ |
| dagger | † | † | † | † |
| double dagger | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ |
| per mille sign | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ |
| single left-pointing angle quotation mark | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ |
| single right-pointing angle quotation mark | › | › | › | › |
| euro sign | € | € | € | € |