HTML ENTITIES

In this tutorial, we will learn about HTML entities. We will see where can we use them and will see a list of HTML entities.

What is HTML Entity?

HTML entity is a special character that is used to represent a character in HTML. For example, & is used to represent the ampersand character (&).

These are used to display some reserved characters like angle brackets, quotes, etc. in HTML. HTML entities start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;).

Why do we use HTML entities?

Understand it with an example. Suppose you want to display HTML code on the screen. If you write HTML code in an HTML file and expect to display it on screen then this is not going to happen. Instead, the browser will parse the HTML code and display output on the screen.

Here comes the use of HTML entities. Use < and > to display angle brackets this way browser will not parse the HTML code and display it on screen.

If you want to write this 👇 on screen
<p>Learning HTML</p>

<p>Then you have to write this 👇.</p>
&lt;p&gt;Learning HTML.&lt;/p&gt;

HTML Entities List

Here is a list of HTML entities.