Appendix C. Special Characters
Symbols (such as & and ‘) are used in everyday writing. HTML uses a shorthand code to display certain characters correctly. The most frequently used characters are referenced in the following tables. As with any code, review your finished pages in the browser before sending your work to the Internet.
Caution
The entity references in the tables that follow are case sensitive.
Symbol Entities
Character | Description | Entity Reference | Entity Number |
|---|---|---|---|
“ | quotation mark | " | " |
‘ | apostrophe | ' (does not work in IE) | ' |
& | ampersand | & | & |
< | less-than | < | < |
> | greater-than | > | > |
non-breaking space | |   | |
¡ | inverted exclamation ... |
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