Some characters are reserved in HTML.


If you use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your text, the browser might mix them with tags.

Character entities are used to display reserved characters in HTML.

Common Entities

  • —  (&mdash;)
  • ’     (&rsquo;)
  • ”    (&rdquo;)
  • ‘     (&lsquo;)
  • “    (&ldquo;)
  • «    (&laquo;)
  • »    (&raquo;)
  • >    (&gt;)
  • <    (&lt;)
  • →   (&rarr;)


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