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HTML - Special Characters


Basic Special Characters in HTML

Some characters have a special meaning in HTML, like the less than sign '<' and '>' that defines the start of and close of an HTML tag respectively. To display these characters in the the browser requires encoding of the characters. Given blew is list of encoding required to display these special characters:

&quot; " Quotation mark

&amp; & Ampersand

&lt; < Less than

&gt; > Greater than

&nbsp; Non-breaking space

&copy; © Copyright symbol