What are Character Entities in HTML5


Some characters are reserved in HTML5. For example, you cannot use the greater than and less than signs or angle brackets within your text because the browser could mistake them for markup.

HTML5 processors must support the five special characters listed in the table that follows.

Symbol
Description
Entity Name
Number Code
"
quotation mark
"
"
'
apostrophe
'
'
&
ampersand
&
&
<
less-than
&lt;
&#60;
>
greater-than
&gt;
&#62;

Updated on: 30-Jul-2019

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