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HTML Symbols

This lesson is part of HTML · All levels

Summary

Special characters such as arrows, currencies, and musical notations are not available directly on the keyboard, so they can be displayed via HTML entity code. Each symbol has a numerical code and a name that can be written directly into the content. This way, the page still displays a variety of symbols without the need for additional images.

Key points

Non-keyboard symbols are written with a numerical entity; or (#nnn) (#xhh)
Example: ♥ as ♥ and € as €
Entity names make it easy to remember common symbols
The symbols remain as regular text, not images.

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