1. HTML4 Tutorial
2. The Web
3. HTML and URLs
4. HTML Element Structure
5. HTML Document Structure
6. HTML - Create Your First HTML Document
7. HTML Text Formatting Elements
8. HTML Entities
9. HTML Lists
10. HTML Links
11. HTML and Images
12. HTML Tables
13. HTML Forms
14. HTML div and span Elements
15. HTML iframe
16. HTML Meta Tags
17. CSS Introduction
18. JavaScript Introduction
19. XHTML Introduction

HTML is being used to write many different types of documents in many different languages. Therefore HTML documents may contain many different symbols that are not part of the standard english alphabet, or the ASCII table. The ASCII table is a table of the most commonly used letters and symbols in english.

To enable authors of HTML documents to include more symbols than are found in the ASCII table, and on their keyboard, HTML contains HTML entities. An HTML entity corresponds to a symbol or character.

HTML entities are written using normal ASCII characters. An HTML entity starts with the ampersand character & and finishes with the semicolon character ; . Between the ampersand and the semicolon you write the name of the HTML entity. Here is an example:

€

This HTML entity will be displayed in the browser as the EURO currency symbol: €

For a more comprehensive list of HTML entities, see Wikipedia's page on HTML entities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

Here is a list of the more commonly used HTML entities: