HTML Special Characters Reference

by Seth on May 8, 2010

Punctuation	HTML Entity (case sensitive)	ISO Latin-1 code	name or meaning
–	–	–	en dash
—	—	—	em dash
¡	¡	¡	inverted exclamation
¿	¿	¿	inverted question mark
"	"	"	quotation mark
“	“	“	left double curly quote
”	”	”	right double curly quote
‘	‘	‘	left single curly quote
’	’	’	right single curly quote
« »	« »	« »	guillemets (used as quotation marks in some languages, e.g., French)
(Its there, but you can’t see it!)			non-breaking space
Symbols
&	&	&	ampersand
¢	¢	¢	cent
©	©	©	copyright
÷	÷	÷	divide
>	>	>	greater than
<	<	<	less than
µ	µ	µ	micron
·	·	·	middle dot
¶	¶	¶	pilcrow (paragraph sign)
±	±	±	plus/minus
€	€	€	Euro
£	£	£	British Pound Sterling
®	®	®	registered
§	§	§	section
™	™		trademark
¥	¥	¥	Japanese Yen
Diacritics
á Á	á Á	á Á	lower-case "a" with acute accent upper-case "A" with acute accent
à À	à À	à À	lower-case "a" with grave accent upper-case "A" with grave accent
â Â	â Â	â Â	lower-case "a" with circumflex upper-case "A" with circumflex
å Å	å Å	å Å	lower-case "a" with ring upper-case "A" with ring
ã Ã	ã Ã	ã Ã	lower-case "a" with tilde upper-case "A" with tilde
ä Ä	ä Ä	ä Ä	lower-case "a" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "A" with diaeresis/umlaut
æ Æ	æ Æ	æ Æ	lower-case "ae" ligature upper-case "AE" ligature
ç Ç	ç Ç	ç Ç	lower-case "c" with cedilla upper-case "C" with cedilla
é É	é É	é É	lower-case "e" with acute accent upper-case "E" with acute accent
è È	è È	è È	lower-case "e" with grave accent upper-case "E" with grave accent
ê Ê	ê Ê	ê Ê	lower-case "e" with circumflex upper-case "E" with circumflex
ë Ë	ë Ë	ë Ë	lower-case "e" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "E" with diaeresis/umlaut
í Í	í Í	í Í	lower-case "i" with acute accent upper-case "I" with acute accent
ì Ì	ì Ì	ì Ì	lower-case "i" with grave accent upper-case "I" with grave accent
î Î	î Î	î Î	lower-case "i" with circumflex upper-case "I" with circumflex
ï Ï	ï Ï	ï Ï	lower-case "i" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "I" with diaeresis/umlaut
ñ Ñ	ñ Ñ	ñ Ñ	lower-case "n" with tilde upper-case "N" with tilde
ó Ó	ó Ó	ó Ó	lower-case "o" with acute accent upper-case "O" with acute accent
ò Ò	ò Ò	ò Ò	lower-case "o" with grave accent upper-case "O" with grave accent
ô Ô	ô Ô	ô Ô	lower-case "o" with circumflex upper-case "O" with circumflex
ø Ø	ø Ø	ø Ø	lower-case "o" with slash upper-case "O" with slash
õ Õ	õ Õ	õ Õ	lower-case "o" with tilde upper-case "O" with tilde
ö Ö	ö Ö	ö Ö	lower-case "o" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "O" with diaeresis/umlaut
ß	ß	ß	ess-tsett
ú Ú	ú Ú	ú Ú	lower-case "u" with acute accent upper-case "U" with acute accent
ù Ù	ù Ù	ù Ù	lower-case "u" with grave accent upper-case "U" with grave accent
û Û	û Û	û Û	lower-case "u" with circumflex upper-case "U" with circumflex
ü Ü	ü Ü	ü Ü	lower-case "u" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "U" with diaeresis/umlaut
ÿ	ÿ	ÿ	lower-case "y" with diaeresis/umlaut
´ `		´ `	acute accent with no letter grave accent/reversed apostrophe with no letter

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