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HTML Entities

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An HTML entity is piece of text starting ampersand (&) and ending with semicolon (;).

HTML Entity characters


Entities are used to display reserve characters in HTML page.

Entities are enclosed by beginning with ampersand (&) and ends with a semicolon (;).

For example: > is for >© is for ©® is for ®" is for " character.

Any reserve characters used in html page without entity symbol, HTML will consider that character as part of the HTML language.

<H1> here < and > has a special meaning to HTML ie starting and ending sign. But here 5 > 2 > is just a greater than character.

Entity number(Decimal or Hexadecimal) can also be used instead of entity name. Ex: &#60;, &#x0003C; or &lt; is for < character.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>HTML Entities</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      &lt;h1&gt; is a heading and  &lt;p&gt; is a paragraph tag.
   </body>
</html>
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