HTML Character Sets and Special Characters

Using these plain-text characters in your document is accomplished by typing the character or numeric set. Once the entities are referenced properly, the browsers will produce the specific character. This chart displays some of the many entities and their code. Open demo_characters.htm file in tutorial.01\demo folder. Enter and view the html output. See the text for additional smybols and characters in Appendix B
Description Character SymbolNumeric Mnemonic Codes
A Blank Space     
Apostrophe Tom’s ’ ’
Cent Sign 50¢ ¢ ¢
Double Right Quotation &8221; ”
Ampersand Sign && &
Copyright Copyright© &#169 ; ©
Bullet &#8226 ; •
Registered Symbol Symbol®® ®
Acute accent Á ´ ´
Trademark Trade™™ ™
Lowercase n tilde ñ ñ ñ
Bar or Pipe | |  
Degree Sign 100° ° °
Fraction one-half
Fraction one-fourth
½
¼
½
¼
½
¼
Greater than Less than <   > &#60;   &#62; &lt; &gt;
Percent sign % &#37;  
Exclamtion Mark ! &#33;  
Dollar Sign $;&#36;  
Ellipsis &133;  
Pointing Hand &9758 ;  
Hearts &9830 ;&hearts;
Club&9827 ;&clubs;
Diamonds &9829; &diams;
Spades&9824;&spades;

Web Design with XHTML Part I
Doris Cuffey, Instructor