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HTML Special Characters Reference by boaz sender October 1st 2008



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HTML Special Character Entities

Web pages want to hang-out with everyone else —they’re not anti-printed page— they want to fit in… The thing is, web browsers have a hard time reading all of our favorite post script punctuation. Some characters are used by html for markup, and therefore render funny, like quotation marks for instance. Other characters, like the em dash, are just simply not included in the html specification.

That’s what html special characters are for. They are special html entities that you can use to convey style and tone— and keep you from looking like an idiot. As a front end developer, I am constantly looking these guys up and I haven’t found a good quick reference yet. So I have compiled one bellow:

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Twice the width of en, or the width of an em.


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