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HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet

Posted September 29, 2005 in Cheat Sheets

The HTML Character Entities cheat sheet is designed to act as a reference sheet, listing the various character codes in HTML.

Description

Thumbnail highlighting functions and methods sections. In keeping with the other cheat sheets, here's a thumbnail of the cheat sheet and brief description. It's really pretty simple, this one. There are four columns. Each of those columns is further divided into three. On the left is the actual code for the character. In the middle, the character itself, and on the right, the description of the character. And that's it!

The more astute of you may spot that the list appears to miss out numbers. Characters  to , and € to Ÿ, are unassigned in HTML, or assigned specific values that do not translate to characters (for example, tabs and line feeds). For this reason, they are omitted.

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HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet was posted September 29, 2005 in Cheat Sheets and has been tagged with webdev, xhtml, web, useful, character, characters, cheatsheet, entities, html, reference and webdesign.

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Another good Cheat Sheet release, thanks :)
Useful, thanks. You should put together a cheat sheet book!
tom
United Kingdom #3: September 30, 2005
another great sheet, thanks!
Joe Ngo
Philippines #4: September 30, 2005
You rock!
nice cheat sheet, keep up the good work.
I haven't actually used any of your cheat sheets, but I have downloaded them as soon as you have published them. I'm quite sure they'll come in handy one day, and by then I don't want to be without them.
Keep up the good work!
Steve
United States #7: October 14, 2005
Another great reference!
Tom
United States #8: October 22, 2005
Wow, neat site with lots of great stuff (and it looks good, too). This cheat sheet will immediately get printed and put into my homemade HTML guide.

I found you when I was looking for php scripts that would test password complexity and Google sent me here (to your php articles). The domain name threw me off a bit (hey, I'm one of those American Baptists!) but I'm glad I stuck around.

I'm sure that I'll find more stuff to help me as I create my site at http://www.CompuSec.us -- and thanks.

Best regards,
Tom
Analgesia
Netherlands #9: October 25, 2005
shouldn't
 to 
be
� to 

Or does � have any meening in HTML?
Analgesia
Netherlands #10: October 25, 2005
sorry about that
shouln'd
 to 
be
� to 
Alex Zan
Russian Federation #11: November 9, 2005
Thank you a lot! I've been searching for such information for a lot of time and i've got it all in one place! thanx!
Why don't you use a UTF-8 codification? I fyou use this codification for your web pages you don't need to introduce those stupid html character entities.
boheme: UTF-8 isn't for everyone, and not without its own issues. The "stupid html character entities" are the safest way to display unusual characters on the web. And you still need character entities, even with UTF-8.
PoG
United Kingdom #14: November 21, 2005
Absolutely brilliant. I had started work on a html page for this type of thing - http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/htmlchars.htm . I'll add the extra ones I find on here to it.
Scott
United Kingdom #15: November 24, 2005
I've printed off all your cheat sheats and are now stapled to my wall - should save me a lot of time when i get stuck every so often!
This should come in useful. Cheers!
Thankyou, PoG, Scott and Dan.
Anonymous
Australia #18: January 22, 2006
nice but the euro symbol is wrong
It's another wonderful cheatsheet, but I do have one complaint. I don't typically find myself searching for the HTML entity for the 'A' character. I more commonly find myself searching for the HTML entity for a right single quotation mark, left/right double quotation marks, or the en/em dashes. Maybe you could create another cheatsheet that is comprised of the most commonly used HTML entities instead of the first 192 or so applicable ones. Just a thought... :)
Dr. K.
Norway #20: May 23, 2006
Great, but isn't the Æ - † called AE with ligature? It's used a lot among norwegian web developers :)
egon
United States #21: May 23, 2006
excellent. this is going to be laminated, along with some of the other cheat sheets. thanks!
Damn good cheat sheet. I'm teaching my friend and co-artist HTML at present, and these are a bloody useful reseource to have on hand. I think I'll be sending her here quite frequently to pick up the PDFs. Thanks!
Very handy cheatsheet there, thanks a bunch for making it. I honestly never would have thought of doing that. O-o

Praise be to the people who think!
Arvind Mittal
India #24: July 4, 2006
Superb Thought, Just needed these references....
Thanks a ton
Very good and usefull , but if u could upgrade with Euro sign, ( € ) there are a lot of euro developers.

Regards
Very Usefull !! Many thanks.
I came here from a link on a french PHP-related website :
www.nexen.net.
I know your work will save thousand hours of mine ...
"Merci encore" (Thanks again). ^__^
yann Bettremieux
United States #27: October 11, 2006
pretty cool... but it's a shoame the PDF is an image instead of actual text you could copy+paste...

Thanks anyway, still very useful :)
i was inspired that i had to create an online copy of it. thanks dave! it is very useful for use all! here's the url - http://allhomepages.com/spclchar.htm
Cameri
Dominican Republic #29: October 26, 2006
I just wanted to say, that there are some HTML entities that are not part of the ASCII table, like the euro sign, €
greg
Switzerland #30: February 15, 2007
how about one with the slightly more readable entities, i.e. é ?

thanks for all the cheat sheets anyway ! :)
Rapunzel
Japan #31: March 4, 2007
I was looking for "white space" entities (em-space, en-space, thin space) but didn't find them here. And don't you like the "mnemonic" entity names such as  ?
You have really a crazy side with many of good informations...
and a great cheat sheet, thanks
Sam Elliott
United Kingdom #33: September 17, 2007
Do You still have the original file that you made into the picture and then the .pdf, because I'd like to make another one with the names rather than with the codes. I will also update it and send it back. Many are asking for updates that i don't think you've done, but that i'm prepared to do. Using an OCR program on the .png didn't work so this is why i'm asking.
Other than that i love your cheatsheets. they're all so good. i have all the ones i need pinned up on my wall and useful bits highlighted.
If you want i can host some for you as my site has a lot of spare bandwidth.
Thanks

Sam
djwisdom
Philippines #34: September 19, 2007
Wonderful cheat sheets. Many thanks on your generous work of sharing it.
I use other entities such as • for a stand alone bullet point and I was just wondering why they are not in the cheat sheet - are they not cross browser?

Great resources by the way, thanks for sharing.
This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you!
Very nice, it's really useful. Thanks alot.
Logo designer
Russian Federation #38: December 31, 2007
Honestly I tried to learn some of the symbol codes by heart but I can't remember nothing except « and ».
Someone just had to do this sheet. Thanks!
Jared
United States #39: January 8, 2008
It is nice to have a well laid out and straight forward place to go when you need to cheat. Don't veer off coarse, the site is awesome.
Bernhard
Unknown #40: January 28, 2008
Why not use the entities names? Using the ASCII codes are NOT safe if you go above 127 since only 7-bit ASCII is standardized. Good idea to make this, but I think it's rather useless the way you've done it.
As already stated you did a really good job on all these cheat sheet. Thank you very much, obviously lots of people (including me) appreciate that. Nevertheless I have a small correction if you don't mind.

As far as I know the Umlaut-double points above a character are called Diaeresis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis) while in german it actually makes vowels to umlauts.

An umlaut is completely differenced pronounced, while a vowel with diaeresis should be pronounced apart from the letter which precedes.

So long and thank you for consideration.
baliwebdesigner
Australia #42: February 18, 2008
again thank you for sharing this .. i love jack daniels
Lou
United States #43: May 7, 2008
Thanks for this- I have been using a lot of french words in my recipes and I have been too lazy to look up the special characters to use for the "correct" spelling.
Lovely stuff. I like it so much I've even blogged about it here --> http://blog.razumny.no/2008/06/posting-code-examples-rendered-like.html
Anonymous
United States #45: June 23, 2008
where are u supposed to put the character entities?
~Spyder~
United States #46: June 25, 2008
Thank you very much for this effort.
ali
Turkey #47: July 1, 2008
i like addedbytes.com very much. It's a great site. Thanks
Trick
Maribor, Slovenia #48: July 8, 2008
There are missing Slovenian characters:
* Č Č
* č č
* Š Š
* š š
* Ž Ž
* ž ž
Great resource. Would be more helpful for the programmers. Real Resource.
Thanks.....
Jiri
Unknown #50: July 21, 2008
Hi, is that sheet in particular code page, as some people here mentions Slavic characters or Norwegian which looks more like from UTF-8 codepage. Thank you for the code sheet, anyway.
Sorry, this one is totally useless. When I'm looking for HTML entities I want named entities. Also these codes are for some outdated ANSI codepage that nobody uses (or should use) anymore. Everything is UTF-8 now.

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