Special HTML Characters

It's easy to make letters with accents in HTML. Use the following sequences in your HTML source code. You can combine the accents with letters other than the ones listed below if the combination appears in the extended Numeric set (see below).

Show Greek letters by placing the name of the letter between the & and ; characters. Capitalize the name of the Greek letter if you want the capital Greek letter.

The characters <, >, and & have special meanings in HTML. Use the following sequences to make these characters appear in your HTML document:

This page lists all of the characters (including many mathematical characters) that can be displayed in HTML by this method. (Use the sequences in the Character Entity or Numeric Reference columns.)

You can also introduce characters from the extended Numeric set into your HTML files. For example, your browser will render the sequence &#163; (don't forget the semicolon!) in HTML source code as the character £. Warning: Characters with numeric references 130 to 159 are not standard across all browsers.

If you still haven't found what you're looking for, check out the entire HTML character entity reference set. It allows the display of characters used in many different alphabets (European and Asian), along with many special symbols.