HTML Tutorial
5. Special characters
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The underlying markup of
a webpage typically contains many more ampersand characters (i.e. &) than appear in the rendered output.
This is because the &
character is part of the way in which HTML marks up
'special' characters, i.e. ones that would otherwise be understood by HTML to
relate to markup. In HTML, each special character is preceded by an ampersand,
followed by the HTML markup name for that character followed by a semicolon. Perhaps
the most common special characters are:
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Special character
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Meaning
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HTML code
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ampersand
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&
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&
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space (technically a
‘non-breaking’ space)
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(e.g. as in
Hello again)
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(e.g. as in Hello again)
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less than sign
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<
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<
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greater than sign
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>
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>
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quotation mark
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"
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"
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apostrophe
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'
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'
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A fuller list of HTML
special characters is available here.
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