Look up any HTML entity in the list below and click to copy its code, or encode text to HTML entities and decode them back.
The most used HTML entities with their name, decimal and hex code. Click a code or a character to copy it, or search all 1,446 named entities by name, symbol or word, such as copyright, arrow or é.
| Character | Name | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reserved in HTML | |||
| ampersand | |||
| less-than sign | |||
| greater-than sign | |||
| quotation mark | |||
| apostrophe | |||
| Spaces and invisible characters | |||
| no-break space | |||
| en space | |||
| em space | |||
| thin space | |||
| zero width non-joiner | |||
| zero width joiner | |||
| soft hyphen | |||
| left-to-right mark | |||
| right-to-left mark | |||
| Quotes and punctuation | |||
| left single quotation mark | |||
| right single quotation mark | |||
| left double quotation mark | |||
| right double quotation mark | |||
| single low-9 quotation mark | |||
| double low-9 quotation mark | |||
| left-pointing double angle quotation mark | |||
| right-pointing double angle quotation mark | |||
| single left-pointing angle quotation mark | |||
| single right-pointing angle quotation mark | |||
| horizontal ellipsis | |||
| en dash | |||
| em dash | |||
| bullet | |||
| middle dot | |||
| dagger | |||
| double dagger | |||
| section sign | |||
| pilcrow sign | |||
| inverted exclamation mark | |||
| inverted question mark | |||
| prime | |||
| double prime | |||
| Currency | |||
| euro sign | |||
| pound sign | |||
| yen sign | |||
| cent sign | |||
| currency sign | |||
| dollar sign | |||
| Math | |||
| plus-minus sign | |||
| multiplication sign | |||
| division sign | |||
| minus sign | |||
| not equal to | |||
| less-than or equal to | |||
| greater-than or equal to | |||
| almost equal to | |||
| identical to | |||
| infinity | |||
| n-ary summation | |||
| n-ary product | |||
| square root | |||
| partial differential | |||
| integral | |||
| degree sign | |||
| micro sign | |||
| per mille sign | |||
| vulgar fraction one half | |||
| vulgar fraction one quarter | |||
| vulgar fraction three quarters | |||
| superscript one | |||
| superscript two | |||
| superscript three | |||
| not sign | |||
| Arrows | |||
| leftwards arrow | |||
| rightwards arrow | |||
| upwards arrow | |||
| downwards arrow | |||
| left right arrow | |||
| leftwards double arrow | |||
| rightwards double arrow | |||
| upwards double arrow | |||
| downwards double arrow | |||
| left right double arrow | |||
| downwards arrow with corner leftwards | |||
| Symbols | |||
| copyright sign | |||
| registered sign | |||
| trade mark sign | |||
| check mark | |||
| ballot x | |||
| black star | |||
| white star | |||
| black heart suit | |||
| black diamond suit | |||
| black club suit | |||
| black spade suit | |||
| black telephone | |||
| female sign | |||
| male sign | |||
| music sharp sign | |||
| music flat sign | |||
| lozenge | |||
| Greek letters | |||
| greek small letter alpha | |||
| greek small letter beta | |||
| greek small letter gamma | |||
| greek small letter delta | |||
| greek small letter epsilon | |||
| greek small letter theta | |||
| greek small letter lamda | |||
| greek small letter mu | |||
| greek small letter pi | |||
| greek small letter sigma | |||
| greek small letter phi | |||
| greek small letter omega | |||
| greek capital letter delta | |||
| greek capital letter sigma | |||
| greek capital letter pi | |||
| greek capital letter omega | |||
| Accented letters | |||
| latin small letter a with grave | |||
| latin small letter a with acute | |||
| latin small letter a with circumflex | |||
| latin small letter a with tilde | |||
| latin small letter a with diaeresis | |||
| latin small letter a with ring above | |||
| latin small letter ae | |||
| latin small letter c with cedilla | |||
| latin small letter e with grave | |||
| latin small letter e with acute | |||
| latin small letter e with circumflex | |||
| latin small letter e with diaeresis | |||
| latin small letter i with acute | |||
| latin small letter i with diaeresis | |||
| latin small letter n with tilde | |||
| latin small letter o with acute | |||
| latin small letter o with circumflex | |||
| latin small letter o with diaeresis | |||
| latin small letter o with stroke | |||
| latin small letter u with acute | |||
| latin small letter u with diaeresis | |||
| latin small letter y with acute | |||
| latin small letter sharp s | |||
| latin capital letter a with ring above | |||
| latin capital letter ae | |||
| latin capital letter e with acute | |||
| latin capital letter o with stroke | |||
| latin capital letter u with diaeresis | |||
HTML entities are small code snippets used in web development to represent characters that either have a special role in HTML or can't be typed directly on a keyboard. These codes always begins with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;).
For example, the entity < shows a less-than sign (<), and & represents an ampersand (&). Without encoding, your browser might confuse them for HTML code rather than content.
These special encodings are known as HTML entities, and they help keep your markup clean and readable.
HTML entities are really useful when it comes to both safety and compatibilty in websites. Some main reasons to use them:
Whether you're writing blogs, emails or code, using entities helps your content display smoothly and securely.
This online converter is made for developers, writers, and anyone working with HTML source. Just pop your text into the box and you'll see the result right away.
You can:
< and & into safe HTML entities.It works with named entities like and numeric ones like . Fast, easy and super useful when writing HTML by hand.
Whenever a character would otherwise be read as markup, angle brackets and ampersands in particular, or when you need a symbol your editor cannot type directly.
Yes. Decoding reads every named entity in HTML5, decimal and hex numbers, and the old names that browsers accept without a semicolon. Encoding can write names, decimal or hex, as you choose.
Write © or ©, and the browser shows ©. The registered sign is ® and the trademark sign is ™. Search the list on this page for any other symbol and click its code to copy it.
HTML5 defines 2,125 named entities. Several names often point to the same character, → and → for example, so they cover about 1,500 characters. The list on this page has the 1,446 that stand for a single character. Any other character can be written with its number.
They are the same character written two ways. The named form is easier to read in source; the numeric form works even where the name is not recognized.
For accented letters and symbols, usually not. For the characters that mean something in HTML, yes. An unescaped angle bracket or ampersand can break the markup or open a hole an attacker can put script through.
Yes. A double quote inside a double-quoted attribute ends the attribute early and breaks the tag, so encode it as ". The encoder here always does, and turns a single quote into '.
A non-breaking space looks exactly like an ordinary space but stops the line wrapping at that point. Decoding turns the entity into that invisible character; the Invisible Character Remover takes them back out.