specialcharacters

Special characters

Special characters are characters that are reserved only for HTML coding. Special characters such as quotation marks or greater than and less than signs (" ", <>) are interpreted by browsers as HTML coding and therefore will not show up when the website is opened, even if written within a paragraph tag. In special circumstances, where it is required to show special characters within a line of text, the HTML entity of that character must be entered. For example, if was needed to be seen in, lets say, a tutorial on HTML, then the HTML entity of that character must be entered instead (&gt;body&lt; will show up as in the text). You can refer to this table for the HTML entity used for different special characters. To learn more about special characters click [|here].

(case sensitive) ||~ name or meaning ||
 * ~ Punctuation ||~ HTML Entity
 * ~ – || – || en dash ||
 * ~ — || &mdash; || em dash ||
 * ~ ¡ || &iexcl; || inverted exclamation ||
 * ~ ¿ || &iquest; || inverted question mark ||
 * ~ " || " || quotation mark ||
 * ~ “ || &ldquo; || left double curly quote ||
 * ~ ” || &rdquo; || right double curly quote ||
 * ~ ' ||  || apostrophe (single quote) ||
 * ~ ‘ || &lsquo; || left single curly quote ||
 * ~ ’ || &rsquo; || right single curly quote ||

» || &laquo;

&raquo; || guillemets (used as quotation marks in some languages, e.g., French) ||
 * //(Its there, but you can't see it!)// ||  || non-breaking space ||
 * ~ Symbols ||
 * ~ & || &amp; || ampersand ||
 * ~ ¢ || &cent; || cent ||
 * ~ © || &copy; || copyright ||
 * ~ ÷ || &divide; || divide ||
 * ~ > || &gt; || greater than ||
 * ~ < || &lt; || less than ||
 * ~ µ || &micro; || micron ||
 * ~ · || &middot; || middle dot ||
 * ~ ¶ || &para; || pilcrow (paragraph sign) ||
 * ~ ± || &plusmn; || plus/minus ||
 * ~ € || &euro; || Euro ||
 * ~ £ || &pound; || British Pound Sterling ||
 * ~ ® || &reg; || registered ||
 * ~ § || &sect; || section ||
 * ~ ™ || &trade; || trademark ||
 * ~ ¥ || &yen; || Japanese Yen ||
 * ~ Diacritics ||
 * ~ á

Á || &aacute;

&Aacute; || lower-case "a" with acute accent

upper-case "A" with acute accent ||
 * ~ à

À || &agrave;

&Agrave; || lower-case "a" with grave accent

upper-case "A" with grave accent ||
 * ~ â

Â || &acirc;

&Acirc; || lower-case "a" with circumflex

upper-case "A" with circumflex ||
 * ~ å

Å || &aring;

&Aring; || lower-case "a" with ring

upper-case "A" with ring ||
 * ~ ã

Ã || &atilde;

&Atilde; || lower-case "a" with tilde

upper-case "A" with tilde ||
 * ~ ä

Ä || &auml;

&Auml; || lower-case "a" with diaeresis/umlaut

upper-case "A" with diaeresis/umlaut ||
 * ~ æ

Æ || &aelig;

&AElig; || lower-case "ae" ligature

upper-case "AE" ligature ||
 * ~ ç

Ç || &ccedil;

&Ccedil; || lower-case "c" with cedilla

upper-case "C" with cedilla ||
 * ~ é

É || &eacute;

&Eacute; || lower-case "e" with acute accent

upper-case "E" with acute accent ||
 * ~ è

È || &egrave;

&Egrave; || lower-case "e" with grave accent

upper-case "E" with grave accent ||
 * ~ ê

Ê || &ecirc;

&Ecirc; || lower-case "e" with circumflex

upper-case "E" with circumflex ||
 * ~ ë

Ë || &euml;

&Euml; || lower-case "e" with diaeresis/umlaut

upper-case "E" with diaeresis/umlaut ||
 * ~ í

Í || &iacute;

&Iacute; || lower-case "i" with acute accent

upper-case "I" with acute accent ||
 * ~ ì

Ì || &igrave;

&Igrave; || lower-case "i" with grave accent

upper-case "I" with grave accent ||
 * ~ î

Î || &icirc;

&Icirc; || lower-case "i" with circumflex

upper-case "I" with circumflex ||
 * ~ ï

Ï || &iuml;

&Iuml; || lower-case "i" with diaeresis/umlaut

upper-case "I" with diaeresis/umlaut ||
 * ~ ñ

Ñ || &ntilde;

&Ntilde; || lower-case "n" with tilde

upper-case "N" with tilde ||
 * ~ ó

Ó || &oacute;

&Oacute; || lower-case "o" with acute accent

upper-case "O" with acute accent ||
 * ~ ò

Ò || &ograve;

&Ograve; || lower-case "o" with grave accent

upper-case "O" with grave accent ||
 * ~ ô

Ô || &ocirc;

&Ocirc; || lower-case "o" with circumflex

upper-case "O" with circumflex ||
 * ~ ø

Ø || &oslash;

&Oslash; || lower-case "o" with slash

upper-case "O" with slash ||
 * ~ õ

Õ || &otilde;

&Otilde; || lower-case "o" with tilde

upper-case "O" with tilde ||
 * ~ ö

Ö || &ouml;

&Ouml; || lower-case "o" with diaeresis/umlaut

upper-case "O" with diaeresis/umlaut ||
 * ~ ß || &szlig; || ess-tsett ||
 * ~ ú

Ú || &uacute;

&Uacute; || lower-case "u" with acute accent

upper-case "U" with acute accent ||
 * ~ ù

Ù || &ugrave;

&Ugrave; || lower-case "u" with grave accent

upper-case "U" with grave accent ||
 * ~ û

Û || &ucirc;

&Ucirc; || lower-case "u" with circumflex

upper-case "U" with circumflex ||
 * ~ ü

Ü || &uuml;

&Uuml; || lower-case "u" with diaeresis/umlaut

upper-case "U" with diaeresis/umlaut ||
 * ~  || &yuml; || lower-case "y" with diaeresis/umlaut ||

` ||  || acute accent with no letter

grave accent/reversed apostrophe with no letter ||

Created by: Tyler Payne, Alan Kuo

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