WellHost HTML Tips -- HTML Character set

Are you an HTML author who wants to put international or other special characters into your webpages? Here is a table of HTML 2.0 codes (from w3.org)

To use one of these characters, you insert the string right in your text. Thus, if you type:

Résumé
You'll get:
Résumé

For a more elaborate reference, see:

StringExampleDescription
	 Horizontal tab

 Line feed

 Carriage Return
  Space
! ! Exclamation mark
" " Quotation mark
# # Number sign
$ $ Dollar sign
% % Percent sign
& & Ampersand
' ' Apostrophe
( ( Left parenthesis
) ) Right parenthesis
* * Asterisk
+ + Plus sign
, , Comma
- - Hyphen
. . Period (fullstop)
/ / Solidus (slash)
: : Colon
&#59; ; Semi-colon
&#60; < Less than
&#61; = Equals sign
&#62; > Greater than
&#63; ? Question mark
&#64; @ Commercial at
&#91; [ Left square bracket
&#92; \ Reverse solidus (backslash)
&#93; ] Right square bracket
&#94; ^ Caret
&#95; _ Horizontal bar (underscore)
&#96; ` Acute accent
&#123; { Left curly brace
&#124; | Vertical bar
&#125; } Right curly brace
&#126; ~ Tilde
&#160;   Non-breaking Space
&#161; ¡ Inverted exclamation
&#162; ¢ Cent sign
&#163; £ Pound sterling
&#164; ¤ General currency sign
&#165; ¥ Yen sign
&#166; ¦ Broken vertical bar
&#167; § Section sign
&#168; ¨ Umlaut (dieresis)
&#169; © Copyright
&#170; ª Feminine ordinal
&#171; « Left angle quote, guillemotleft
&#172; ¬ Not sign
&#173; ­ Soft hyphen
&#174; ® Registered trademark
&#175; ¯ Macron accent
&#176; ° Degree sign
&#177; ± Plus or minus
&#178; ² Superscript two
&#179; ³ Superscript three
&#180; ´ Acute accent
&#181; µ Micro sign
&#182; Paragraph sign
&#183; · Middle dot
&#184; ¸ Cedilla
&#185; ¹ Superscript one
&#186; º Masculine ordinal
&#187; » Right angle quote, guillemotright
&#188; ¼ Fraction one-fourth
&#189; ½ Fraction one-half
&#190; ¾ Fraction three-fourths
&#191; ¿ Inverted question mark
&#192; À Capital A, grave accent
&#193; Á Capital A, acute accent
&#194; Â Capital A, circumflex accent
&#195; Ã Capital A, tilde
&#196; Ä Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#197; Å Capital A, ring
&#198; Æ Capital AE dipthong (ligature)
&#199; Ç Capital C, cedilla
&#200; È Capital E, grave accent
&#201; É Capital E, acute accent
&#202; Ê Capital E, circumflex accent
&#203; Ë Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#204; Ì Capital I, grave accent
&#205; Í Capital I, acute accent
&#206; Î Capital I, circumflex accent
&#207; Ï Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#208; Ð Capital Eth, Icelandic
&#209; Ñ Capital N, tilde
&#210; Ò Capital O, grave accent
&#211; Ó Capital O, acute accent
&#212; Ô Capital O, circumflex accent
&#213; Õ Capital O, tilde
&#214; Ö Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#215; × Multiply sign
&#216; Ø Capital O, slash
&#217; Ù Capital U, grave accent
&#218; Ú Capital U, acute accent
&#219; Û Capital U, circumflex accent
&#220; Ü Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#221; Ý Capital Y, acute accent
&#222; Þ Capital THORN, Icelandic
&#223; ß Small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
&#224; à Small a, grave accent
&#225; á Small a, acute accent
&#226; â Small a, circumflex accent
&#227; ã Small a, tilde
&#228; ä Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#229; å Small a, ring
&#230; æ Small ae dipthong (ligature)
&#231; ç Small c, cedilla
&#232; è Small e, grave accent
&#233; é Small e, acute accent
&#234; ê Small e, circumflex accent
&#235; ë Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#236; ì Small i, grave accent
&#237; í Small i, acute accent
&#238; î Small i, circumflex accent
&#239; ï Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#240; ð Small eth, Icelandic
&#241; ñ Small n, tilde
&#242; ò Small o, grave accent
&#243; ó Small o, acute accent
&#244; ô Small o, circumflex accent
&#245; õ Small o, tilde
&#246; ö Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#247; ÷ Division sign
&#248; ø Small o, slash
&#249; ù Small u, grave accent
&#250; ú Small u, acute accent
&#251; û Small u, circumflex accent
&#252; ü Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
&#253; ý Small y, acute accent
&#254; þ Small thorn, Icelandic
&#255; ÿ Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark

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