HTML symbol reference
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by mcc |
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Fri Jul 21 2000 at 04:20:46 UTC |
HTML uses the idea of something called a "character
entity". Put something between an &
and a semicolon,
and you will get some symbol. For example, < is <, > is
>, and & is &. Most symbols can be accessed by both a
number (&) and a word (&).
By using the character entities, you can use symbols
in your e2 writeups.
Two more symbols you will find extremely useful are [ and
], [ and ], which will allow you to use square
brackets on e2
without hardlinking.
Since there are a lot of these symbols, remembering all or
even most of them is impossible, and most reference guides are
incomplete, following for your reading pleasure is what according to the
w3c
is all
of the standard defined html
entities. Any time you see this reference something as a U
followed by a hexadecimal
number, the thing being referenced is the unicode
sybol with that hex value. Other places you might want to look would be everyone's
writeup and the fourth chapter of n-wing's
writeup on E2
HTML tags, as well as HTML
special characters. Information on the source of this document is at
the end.
One more funky thing; For
some odd reason, there are a great many of these entities (mostly
above ÿ) that Netscape
(OK,
and some other browsers) supports the number-based version of but
not the word-based version of. As such i have used the number-based
version for all of the symbols below, and i suggest you do as well, even
though it will make your HTML unreadable,
and is cruel toward the lynx
users.
 | --
--   -- no-break space
 | -- ¡ -- ¡ -- inverted exclamation
mark
 | -- ¢ -- ¢ -- cent
sign
 | -- £ -- £ -- pound
sterling sign
 | -- ¤ -- ¤ -- general
currency sign
 | -- ¥ -- ¥ -- yen
sign
 | -- ¦ -- ¦ -- broken (vertical) bar
 | -- § -- § -- section sign
 | -- ¨ -- ¨ -- umlaut
(dieresis)
 | -- © -- © -- copyright
sign
 | -- ª -- ª -- ordinal indicator, feminine
 | -- « -- « -- angle quotation mark, left
 | -- ¬ -- ¬ -- not sign
 | -- ­ -- ­ -- soft hyphen
 | -- ® -- ® -- registered sign
 | -- ¯ -- ¯ -- macron
 | -- ° -- ° -- degree sign
 | -- ± -- ± -- plus-or-minus sign
 | -- ² -- ² -- superscript
two
 | -- ³ -- ³ -- superscript
three
 | -- ´ -- ´ -- acute accent
 | -- µ -- µ -- micro sign
 | -- ¶ -- ¶ -- pilcrow (paragraph sign)
 | -- · -- · -- middle dot
 | -- ¸ -- ¸ -- cedilla
 | -- ¹ -- ¹ -- superscript one
 | -- º -- º -- ordinal indicator, masculine
 | -- » -- » -- angle quotation
mark, right
 | -- ¼ -- ¼ -- fraction one-quarter
 | -- ½ -- ½ -- fraction one-half
 | -- ¾ -- ¾ -- fraction three-quarters
 | -- ¿ -- ¿ -- inverted question
mark
 | -- À -- À -- capital A, grave
accent
 | -- Á -- Á -- capital A, acute
accent
 | -- Â -- Â -- capital A, circumflex
accent
 | -- Ã -- Ã -- capital A, tilde
 | -- Ä -- Ä -- capital A, dieresis or umlaut
mark
 | -- Å -- Å -- capital A, ring
 | -- Æ -- Æ -- capital AE diphthong
(ligature)
 | -- Ç -- Ç -- capital C, cedilla
 | -- È -- È -- capital E, grave accent
 | -- É -- É -- capital E, acute accent
 | -- Ê -- Ê -- capital E, circumflex accent
 | -- Ë -- Ë -- capital E, dieresis or umlaut
mark
 | -- Ì -- Ì -- capital I, grave accent
 | -- Í -- Í -- capital I, acute accent
 | -- Î -- Î -- capital I, circumflex accent
 | -- Ï -- Ï -- capital I, dieresis or umlaut
mark
 | -- Ð -- Ð -- capital Eth,
Icelandic
 | -- Ñ -- Ñ -- capital N, tilde
 | -- Ò -- Ò -- capital O, grave accent
 | -- Ó -- Ó -- capital O, acute accent
 | -- Ô -- Ô -- capital O, circumflex accent
 | -- Õ -- Õ -- capital O, tilde
 | -- Ö -- Ö -- capital O, dieresis or umlaut
mark
 | -- × -- × -- multiply
sign
 | -- Ø -- Ø -- capital O, slash
 | -- Ù -- Ù -- capital U, grave accent
 | -- Ú -- Ú -- capital U, acute accent
 | -- Û -- Û -- capital U, circumflex accent
 | -- Ü -- Ü -- capital U, dieresis or umlaut
mark
 | -- Ý -- Ý -- capital Y, acute accent
 | -- Þ -- Þ -- capital THORN,
Icelandic
 | -- ß -- ß -- small sharp s, German (sz
ligature)
 | -- à -- à -- small a, grave accent
 | -- á -- á -- small a, acute accent
 | -- â -- â -- small a, circumflex accent
 | -- ã -- ã -- small a, tilde
 | -- ä -- ä -- small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
 | -- å -- å -- small a, ring
 | -- æ -- æ -- small ae diphthong (ligature)
 | -- ç -- ç -- small c, cedilla
 | -- è -- è -- small e, grave accent
 | -- é -- é -- small e, acute accent
 | -- ê -- ê -- small e, circumflex accent
 | -- ë -- ë -- small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
 | -- ì -- ì -- small i, grave accent
 | -- í -- í -- small i, acute accent
 | -- î -- î -- small i, circumflex accent
 | -- ï -- ï -- small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
 | -- ð -- ð -- small eth, Icelandic
 | -- ñ -- ñ -- small n, tilde
 | -- ò -- ò -- small o, grave accent
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