Character Entities
https://www.computersprofessor.com/2016/05/character-entities.html
In
order to display special symbols like <, >, &, “having some
predefined meaning we use character entities because that cannot display
directly in web pages. Entities are represented with entity name. These are
starts with an ampersand (&) symbol and ends with semi colon (;). There are
two ways.
Syntax1: &entityname;
Eg:1) 20 < 30 Þ 20 & lt ; 30
(or)
Syntax2: &entitynumber;
Eg: 2) 20 & # 60 30 Þ
20 < 30
To
display ‘< ‘sign in html page we must write & lt; or < because it
treats it as. Instruction.
Entities
are case sensitive, we can use only lower case letters to write entities.
Eg:Good---Morning. [Non breaking space-nbsp]
Good Morning.
The
most common character entities are:
Result
|
Description
|
Entity
name
|
Entity
number
|
|
1.
Space
|
Non
breaking space
|
&
nbsp ;
|
&
# 160 ;
|
|
2.
<
|
Less
than
|
&
lt ;
|
&
# 60 ;
|
|
3.
>
|
Greater
than
|
&
gt ;
|
&
# 62 ;
|
|
4.
&
|
ampresend
|
&
amp ;
|
&
# 38 ;
|
|
5.
“
|
(double
quote quotation mark)
|
&
quote ;
|
&
# 34 ;
|
Eg: u & i sing“Happy Birthday “ song.
u & I sing "e; Happy Birthday "e; song.