Character Entities
Although the characters available from the computer’s keyboard are usually sufficient for writing the content of webpage, you might need to insert special or reserved (code specific ie: angle brackets) characters. In these cases, HTML character entities can be used. These are small codes that create characters within a document.
There are two main types of character entities: character codes, and entity names. Character codes consist of a number (for example © represents the copyright symbol, ©). Entity names, on the other hand, provide an easier to read method by using characters (for example © represents the copyright symbol, ©).
This character entities section of the HTML reference consists of the following sections:
- Standard Keyboard Characters: Character codes 00 to 159.
- Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) Characters: Character codes 160 to 255.
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