HTML Special Character Reference
The following is an incomplete reference of HTML lookup characters. It attempts to touch upon the most commonly used elements and should be considered a quick reference rather than a complete guide.
| Character | Escape Sequence | Character Number | Name |
| © | © | © | Copyright |
| ® | ® | ® | Registered Trademark |
| $ | $ | Dollar Sign | |
| ¢ | ¢ | Cent Sign | |
| £ | £ | British Pound | |
| ¥ | ¥ | Japanese Yen | |
| ¤ | ¤ | Currency Symbol | |
| @ | @ | Commercial at | |
| # | # | Pound Sign | |
| % | % | Percent Sign | |
| & | & | & | Ampersand |
| * | * | Asterisk | |
| + | + | Plus Sign | |
| - | - | Minus Sign | |
| × | × | Multiplication Sign | |
| ÷ | ÷ | Division Sign | |
| = | = | Equals Sign | |
| < | < | < | Less Than |
| > | > | > | Greater Than |
| ± | ± | Plus or Minus | |
| ¬ | ¬ | Not Symbol | |
| ( | ( | Left Parenthesis | |
| ) | ) | Right Parenthesis | |
| [ | [ | Left Square Bracket | |
| ] | ] | Right Square Bracket | |
| { | { | Left Curly Brace | |
| } | } | Right Curly Brace | |
| ¼ | ¼ | Fraction One Quarter | |
| ½ | ½ | Fraction One Half | |
| ¾ | ¾ | Fraction Three Quarters | |
| ª | ª | Feminine Ordinal | |
| º | º | Masculine Ordinal | |
| ° | ° | Degree Symbol | |
| µ | µ | Micro Symbol | |
| « | « | Left Angle Quote | |
| » | » | Right Angle Quote | |
| ¶ | ¶ | Paragraph Symbol | |
| § | § | Section Symbol | |
| ! | ! | Exclamation Mark | |
| ? | ? | Question Mark | |
| - | - | Hyphen | |
| ; | ; | Semi-Colon | |
| : | : | Colon | |
| ' | ' | Apostrophe | |
| " | " | " | Quotation Mark |
| , | , | Comma | |
| . | . | Period | |
| / | / | Slash | |
| \ | \ | Backslash | |
| 	 | Horizontal Tab | ||
| | Line Feed | ||
|   | Space | ||
| | Non-Breaking Space | ||
| | | | | Vertical Bar | |
| _ | _ | Horizontal Bar | |
| ¦ | ¦ | Broken Vertical Bar | |
| ` | ` | Grave Accent | |
| ´ | ´ | Acute Acent | |
| ^ | ^ | Caret | |
| ~ | ~ | Tilde | |
| ¨ | ¨ | Umlaut | |
| ° | ° | Ring | |
| · | · | Middle Dot | |
| ¸ | ¸ | Cedilla | |
| ¯ | ¯ | Macron Accent | |
| ¡ | ¡ | Inverted Exclamation | |
| ¿ | ¿ | Inverted Exclamation Mark | |
| Æ | Æ | Æ | Upper Case AE, Ligature |
| æ | æ | æ | Lower Case ae, Ligature |
The umlaut, tilde, and grave accent can be added to any letter, x, by the following escape sequences:
| Example | Escape Sequence | Description |
| ä | &xuml | x with an umlaut |
| ã | &xtilde | x with a tilde |
| å | &xring | x with a ring accent |
| â | &xcirc | x with a circumflex accent |
| Ø | &xslash | x with a slash |
| V | &xcedil | x with a cedilla |
| á | &xacute | x with an acute accent |
| à | &xgrave | x with a grave accent |
