HTML character entities

Presentation prepared by Nobel Mujuji

• 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’.

Types of HTML entities

• ASCII Characters• ISO 8859-1 Characters• ISO 8859-1 Symbols• Math Symbols• Greek Letters• Miscellaneous HTML entities

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

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

cont⇒ ⇒ ⇒ rightward double

arrow

∅ ∅ ∅ empty set

∇ ∇ ∇ nabla

♠ ♠ ♠ black (solid) spade suit

♥ ♥ ♥ black (solid) heart suit

♦ ♦ ♦ black (solid) diamond suit

⊥ ⊥ ⊥ up tack

⊗ ⊗ ⊗ circled times

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