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The fifth column contains a description of the character, and an occasional note. Again, the proper character is only displayed if the default font selected in your browser preferences contains such a character. The fourth column shows how the number reference displays in your browser. The third column contains the number reference for the same character in the form number, that is, an ampersand, a hash symbol (which signals that a number reference is coming), the character's number, and then a semi colon. The proper character will only appear if you have a font that can display it. The second column displays how that entity appears in your browser. The first column contains the entity reference, in the form &entity_name, that is, an ampersand, the entity name, and then a semi colon. Entities for mathematical and technical characters (including Greek)Įach table has five columns.Entities for accented characters, accents, and other diacritics from Western European Languages.Entities for characters with special meaning in HTML and XHTML.I have divided them into my own, hopefully logical, categories:
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Here is a set of tables containing the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as described in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C. Character Entity References in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0