HTML Character Entities


The following table partially lists the extended character set for HTML, also known as the ISO Latin-1 Character set. Characters can be defined by name or by numeric value. For example, to define the registered trademark symbol, ®, you can either use &reg or &#174.

Code names that may not be recognized by older browsers are marked with an asterisk in the following table.

CHARACTER
CODE
CODE NAME
DESCRIPTION
!
&#33
  Exclamation mark
"
&#34
&quot
Double quotation mark
#
&#35
&amp
Pound sign
$
&#36
  Dollar sign
%
&#37
  Percent sign
&
&#38
  Ampersand
'
&#39
  Apostrophe
(
&#40
  Left parenthesis
)
&#41
  Right Apostrophe
*
&#42
  Asterisk
+
&#43
  Plus sign
,
&#44
  Comma
-
&#45
  Hyphen
.
&#46
  Period
/
&#47
  Forward slash
0-9
&#48 - &#57
  Numbers 0-9
:
&#58
  Colon
;
&#59
  Semicolon
<
&#60
&lt
Less than sign
=
&#61
  Equal sign
>
&#62
&gt
Greater than sign
?
&#63
  Question mark
@
&#64
  Commercial at sign
A-Z
&#65 - &#90
  Letters A-Z
[
&#91
  Left square bracket
\
&#92
  Back slash
]
&#93
  Right square bracket
^
&#94
  Caret
_
&#95
  Horizontal bar (underscore)
{
&#123
  Left curly brace
|
&#124
  Vertical bar
}
&#125
  Right curly brace
~
&#126
  Tilde
™
&#153
&trade*
Trademark symbol
©
&#169
&copy*
Copyright symbol
®
&#174
&copy*
Registered trademark