There are a number of characters that are reserved by the HTML language and will not always appear correctly on web pages. You need to use the tags below, or the ISO codes, in order to show special characters correctly on web pages.
- Tag Start -
<- < - Less-Than symbol, usually used to define the start of an actual HTML tag.
- Tag End -
>- > - Greater-Than symbol, used to declare the end of each tag.
- Quotation Marks -
"- " - As the name says: to mark a quote, or in html terms: to declare the value of a tag attribute.
- Ampersand -
&- & - It is used to define the start of all special character tags, so it needs a special charachter tag itself.
- Non Breaking Space -
- A space, a plain ordinary space (like when you press the spacebar). The non-breaking part is relevant because multiple spaces in HTML will only show up as one space on your web page. This tag can be used many times in a row to force the web browser to display many spaces on the web page.
- Copyright -
©- © - Copyright indicates ownership of intellectual property. See copyright defined on Wikipedia.
- Trademark -
™- ™ - Declares a product name or images as business trademark that is not yet registered.
- Registered -
®- ® - Used to indicate that a product or business trademark that is officially registered.
- One Half -
½- ½ - Fraction symbol for One Half (0.5) of some other value.
- Degree -
°- ° - The degree symbol is used to represent temperature or angular measurements.
ISO 8859-1 Codes
There are many other special characters that can be shown on web pages, each of which has a special code known as an ISO code.
See the full list of ISO 8859-1 Codes for displaying special characters in HTML.
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