HTML
Entities
List of Content:
1. HTML Entities
2. Non-breaking Space
3. Some Useful HTML Character Entities
4. Combining Diacritical Marks
HTML Entities
● Some characters are reserved in HTML.
● If you use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your text, the browser
might mix them with tags. To display a less than sign (<) we must write: <
or <
● Character entities are used to display reserved characters in HTML.
● A character entity looks like this:
&entity_name;
OR
&#entity_number;
Non-breaking Space
● A commonly used entity in HTML is the non-breaking space:
● A non-breaking space is a space that will not break into a new line.
● Two words separated by a non-breaking space will stick together (not break into
a new line). This is handy when breaking the words might be disruptive.
● Examples:
§ 10
10 km/h
10 PM
● Another common use of the non-breaking space is to prevent browsers from
truncating spaces in HTML pages.
● If you write 10 spaces in your text, the browser will remove 9 of them. To add real
spaces to your text, you can use the character entity.
Some very useful Character Entities
Example:
Combining Diacritical Marks
● A diacritical mark is a "glyph" added to a letter.
● Some diacritical marks, like grave ( ̀) and acute ( ́) are called accents.
● Diacritical marks can appear both above and below a letter, inside a
letter, and between two letters.
● Diacritical marks can be used in combination with alphanumeric
characters to produce a character that is not present in the character set
(encoding) used in the page.
Example:
THANK YOU
