HTML entity lookup
Search common HTML entities — punctuation, currency, math, arrows, symbols, accents. Click to copy the named entity, numeric form, or raw character.
Search entities
matches
| Char | Name | Number | Category | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
No entities match that search.
Encode text
Paste plain text — get &, <, >, quotes escaped for HTML.
Encoded output
This table covers the most common named entities — not the full HTML5 list. The encode box only escapes the five characters that must be escaped in HTML text nodes.
About this tool
HTML entities let you type characters you cannot put raw in markup — or characters that would be interpreted as tags. Use &name; for readability or &#number; when no named entity exists.
In real pages you rarely hand-type entities for accented letters — UTF-8 handles that. Entities matter most for &, <, arrows, math symbols, and typographic punctuation in static HTML or templates.
Read more
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- Sanitize user input in Express — escaping untrusted text
- JSX — how React handles special characters in templates
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