A complete, searchable guide to HTML entities, unicode characters, and CSS escape codes.
Use our list to find and copy special characters which are not on standard keyboards. You might need math symbols, arrows, or invisible codes, yet they are hard to type. We include the Entity Name, Hex, Decimal, and CSS values, so your code works perfectly in every browser.
HTML entities are small pieces of code that tell web browsers to display special characters. We use them for symbols that are not on a standard keyboard, like the copyright symbol (©) or the math symbol for Pi (π). If you just type these directly, some older browsers or file formats might not render them correctly.
Web browsers are smart, yet they get confused by "reserved" characters. For example, the "less than" sign (<) and "greater than" sign (>) are used to create HTML tags. If you use them in your text, the browser thinks you are writing code, which breaks your page layout.
So, we use entities like < instead. This tells the browser to display the symbol to the user, but treat it as text behind the scenes.
You can write an entity in three ways: using a name, a decimal number, or a hexadecimal code.
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