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HTML Symbols

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HTML symbols (like , , ) can be used in html page by entity symbol.

Entity Symbol


There are many symbols that are not present on keyboard, can displayed by entity character of symbol.

Entity name is enclosed by beginning with ampersand (&) and ends with a semicolon (;) ie: &#prod; is for symbol

Entity number(Decimal or Hexadecimal) can also be used instead of entity name. Ex: &8719; or ∏ for character.

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Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>HTML Entity Symbol</title>
   </head>
   <body>
        <p>Example: HTML Entity Symbol</p>
       <h1>&prod; is the entity name for ∏ symbol.</h1>
       <h1>&#8719; is the entity number for ∏ symbol.</h1>
   </body>
</html>
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