HTML Special Character List (© ™ etc.)

I found a good list to keep around for reference for when you want to utilize various special characters in your pages, html emails, urls, etc.

It is important to utilize the html code for the special characters because if you copy and paste from a document on your computer, any special characters will be displayed from your OS and not translated to be viewed in the browser. This can result in empty square boxes or odd characters being displayed when viewing the saved page in the browser. As well the html values are the same when viewing from any operating system.

For instance in the linked list it will say “bull” for a bullet icon. To properly display the bullet icon in html you put an ampersand before it and a semicolon after. •

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View the Character Entity References Defined in HTML 4.0