HTML Character Codes and Symbols

There are various symbols (€, ©, ®, etc) that are not present on our keyboard. We use HTML entities to render these symbols on a web browser. For example,

<p>copyright sign &#169;</p>

Browser Output

Here, we have added the copyright sign using the entity code ©.

Some symbols supported by HTML

We use entity name and entity number to render symbols using HTML. Some of the mathematical, greek, etc symbols supported by HTML are as follows:

Note: We can use either the entity number or the entity code to display the symbol.