Html Entities

Some characters like the < character, have a special meaning in HTML, and therefore cannot be used in the text.
To display a less than sign (<) in HTML, we have to use a character entity Character entity references, or entities for short, provide a method of entering characters that cannot be expressed in the document's character encoding or that cannot easily be entered on a keyboard
Some characters have a special meaning in HTML, like the less than sign (<) that defines the start of an HTML tag. If we want the browser to actually display these characters we must insert character entities in the HTML source.
A character entity has three parts:

• an ampersand (&)
,
• an entity name or a # and an entity number
,
• and finally a semicolon (;).

Non-breaking Space

The most common character entity in HTML is the non-breaking space.

The Most Common Character Entities:

Some Other Commonly Used Character Entities:

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