Markup Specific Entities in XHTML

February 25, 2008 – 10:11 am by Dani Iswara

On this page you’ll find markup-specific entities in HTML and XHTML. Some Doctype need the proper entity. Some name-based entity may not be supported by this blog page. Not all of entities are supported by browsers (eg Internet Explorer). Use numeric-based entity properly.

Table 1. Markup-Specific Entities in X/HTML
Example Named Entity Numeric Entity Description
" " " quotation mark
& & & ampersand
< &lt; &#60; less-than sign
> &gt; &#62; greater-than sign
Œ &OElig; &#338; Latin capital ligature OE
œ &oelig; &#339; Latin small ligature oe
Š &Scaron; &#352; Latin capital letter S with caron
š &scaron; &#353; Latin small letter s with caron
Ÿ &Yuml; &#376; Latin capital letter Y with diaeresis
ˆ &circ; &#710; modifier letter circumflex accent
˜ &tilde; &#732; small tilde
&ensp; &#8194; en space
&emsp; &#8195; em space
&thinsp; &#8201; thin space
&zwnj; &#8204; zero width non-joiner
&zwj; &#8205; zero width joiner
&lrm; &#8206; left-to-right mark
&rlm; &#8207; right-to-left mark
&ndash; &#8211; en dash
&mdash; &#8212; em dash
&lsquo; &#8216; left single quotation mark
&rsquo; &#8217; right single quotation mark
&sbquo; &#8218; single low-9 quotation mark
&ldquo; &#8220; left double quotation mark
&rdquo; &#8221; right double quotation mark
&bdquo; &#8222; double low-9 quotation mark
&dagger; &#8224; dagger
&Dagger; &#8225; double dagger
&permil; &#8240; per mille sign
&lsaquo; &#8249; single left-pointing angle quotation
&rsaquo; &#8250; single right-pointing angle quotation
&euro; &#8364; euro sign

Source: Markup-Specific Entities in X/HTML

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