Html character entities

1. HTML character entities
Presentation prepared by Nobel Mujuji

2. • HTML character entity references are escape sequences that can be
used to refer to characters not in a page’s character set. This page
contains charts of all of the character entity references defined in
HTML. If your browser supports print stylesheets then the printed
version of this page will contain only the charts, for use as a ‘cheat
sheet’.

3. Types of HTML entities
• ASCII Characters
• ISO 8859-1 Characters
• ISO 8859-1 Symbols
• Math Symbols
• Greek Letters
• Miscellaneous HTML entities

4. ASCII Characters (Printable)
Only printable characters are displayed as control characters (0-31)
shouldn't be present in HTML pages since they have no visual
representations

5. Types of character entities
Character Entity Name Entity Number Description
    Space
@ @ At sign
± ± ± Plus or minus
µ µ µ Micro
® ® ® Registered trademark
© © © Copyright
¼ ¼ ¼ Fraction 1/4
∑ ∑ ∑ Sum
∩ ∩ ∩ Cap

6. cont
⇒ ⇒ ⇒ rightward double arrow
∅ ∅ ∅ empty set
∇ ∇ ∇ nabla
♠ ♠ ♠ black (solid) spade suit
♥ ♥ ♥ black (solid) heart suit
♦ ♦ ♦ black (solid) diamond
suit
⊥ ⊥ ⊥ up tack
⊗ ⊗ ⊗ circled times

7. Greek letters
Θ Θ Θ Theta
Ξ Ξ Ξ Xi
Ω Ω Ω Omega
ϖ ϖ ϖ Pi symbol
ψ ψ ψ psi
κ κ κ kappa
Φ Φ Φ Phi
η η η eta
ζ ζ ζ zeta
Α Α Α Alpha