HTML 5 Foreign Characters and Symbols

Mastering HTML5 - Part 3

Forward: In this part of the series I show you how you can type any character that you want.

By: Chrysanthus Date Published: 22 Jul 2012

Introduction

This is part 3 of my series, Mastering HTML5. I assume you have read the previous parts of the series before reaching here. Entities are used to code characters that are not on your keyboard and characters that may be on your keyboard but would conflict with the HTML reserved characters (like <). There are characters such as > on your keyboard that have special meanings in HTML code. Using such characters arbitrarily would conflict with the HTML special characters. The > character in particular is used in forming HTML tags. In this part of the series I show you how you can type any character that you want.

Note: If you cannot see the code or if you think anything is missing (broken link, image absent. Etc.), just contact me at forchatrans@yahoo.com. That is, contact me for the slightest problem you have about what you are reading.

Common Character Entities
Here are the very common character entities and their meanings.

' or ' means apostrophe, that is '
" or " means quotation mark, that is "
< or < means the Less Than Sign, that is <
> or > means the Greater Than Sign, that is >
  or   means non-breaking space
& or & means ampersand, that is &
¢ or ¢ means cent.
£ or £ means pound
¥ or ¥ means yen
§ or § means section
© or © means copyright
® or ® means registered trademark
× or × means multiplication
÷ or ÷ means division

All Entities and their Characters supported by HTML 5
In this section, a character may also mean a symbol. Here, character or symbol is called, glyph. The link to the list of all entities and their characters, supported by HTML 5 is given below. When you are in need of typing a foreign character, you should consult this list.

When you click the hyperlink below, you will see a list of all the entities and their glyphs. The entities are given without the preceding & sign. To use any entity in the list, first precede it with the & sign. The link is given below.

That is it for this part of the series. We stop here and continue in the next part.

Chrys

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/named-character-references.html#named-character-references

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