HTML Symbol Entities

HTML Symbol Entities

HTML Entities are codes we place into our html that render symbols. Some symbols cannot be placed into your source code because they are not on your keyboard, and some that are on your keyboard are reserved for special use in HTML. Therefore you can insert a code into your source that will render the symbols to the viewers of your document. I like to display 90 degrees as 90°. See there... we just cleverly used an HTML entity to convey an idea through universal symbolism.

There are thousands of HTML entities. I will organize many of them into groups for you to reference here. HTML entities can be rendered using their keyword name or by their hex code counterpart. I prefer to use the hex codes due to better browser compliance and support in rendering the various symbols. I have noticed that some keyword names fail in some browsers like Internet Explorer, whereas the hex code version of the symbol works in all browsers. That being said I will list only hex codes for HTML entity referencing here.

★ Reserved Symbols

★ Popular Symbols

★ Keyboard Symbols

★ Icon Symbols

★ Arrow Symbols

★ Star Symbols

★ Ordinal Symbols

★ Math and Engineering Symbols

★ Block Symbols

★ Line Symbols

★ Roman Numeral Symbols

★ Punctuation Symbols

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