Character entity references, or entities for short, provide a method of entering characters that cannot be expressed in the document's character encoding or that cannot easily be entered on a keyboard. Entities are case-sensitive and take the form
Examples of entities include © for the copyright symbol (©) and Σ for the Greek capital letter sigma (Σ).
Some entities are shown in the following table. More info on entities can be found on http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/
| Symbol | Code name | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| © | © | copyright symbol |
| ® | ® | registered trademark |
| · | · | midle dot |
| º | º | masculine ordinal |
| ™ | ™ | trademark symbol |
| | nonbreaking space | |
| < | < | less than symbol |
| > | > | greater than symbol |
| & | & | ampersand |
| ′ | ′ | prime |
| ' | ' | single quote |
| " | " | double quote |
Note that not all entities are supported by any browser.