HTML Character Code

In writing code in HTML, logical constructs are known as character data and attribute values consist of a sequence of characters, where each character can manifest directly or can be represented by a series of characters called character references. There are 2 types of references that can be used, namely: numeric character references and character entity references.

Numeric character references, for example like the following example: & or can be written as a character entity reference by writing as follows: & which has the intention of replacing a symbol &(ampersand) character.

There are several groupings in the HTML Character Code, namely:

1. Special HTML Codes
2. Regular / Standard HTML Codes
3. Extra HTML Codes
4. HTML Math Symbol Codes
5. Currency Symbol Codes
6. Intellectual Property Codes
7. Greek Alphabet Codes

The grouping above is intended to make it easier to find which HTML Code to use.

Special HTML Codes

Character	Numeric Code	Named Code	Description
				horizontal tab
	
		line feed
	
		carriage return / enter
	 	 	non-breaking space

Regular HTML Character Codes

Character	Numeric Code	Named Code	Description
	 		space
!	!		exclamation mark
"	"	"	double quote
#	#		number
$	$		dollar
%	%		percent
&	&	&	ampersand
'	'	'	single quote
(	(		left parenthesis
)	)		right parenthesis
*	*		asterisk
+	+		plus
,	,		comma
-	-		minus
.	.		period
/	/		slash
0	0		zero
1	1		one
2	2		two
3	3		three
4	4		four
5	5		five
6	6		six
7	7		seven
8	8		eight
9	9		nine
:	:		colon
;	&#59;		semicolon
<	&#60;	&lt;	less than
=	&#61;		equality sign
>	&#62;	&gt;	greater than
?	&#63;		question mark
@	&#64;		at sign
A	&#65;
B	&#66;
C	&#67;
D	&#68;
E	&#69;
F	&#70;
G	&#71;
H	&#72;
I	&#73;
J	&#74;
K	&#75;
L	&#76;
M	&#77;
N	&#78;
O	&#79;
P	&#80;
Q	&#81;
R	&#82;
S	&#83;
T	&#84;
U	&#85;
V	&#86;
W	&#87;
X	&#88;
Y	&#89;
Z	&#90;
[	&#91;		left square bracket
\	&#92;		backslash
]	&#93;		right square bracket
^	&#94;		caret / circumflex
_	&#95;		underscore
`	&#96;		grave / accent
a	&#97;
b	&#98;
c	&#99;
d	&#100;
e	&#101;
f	&#102;
g	&#103;
h	&#104;
i	&#105;
j	&#106;
k	&#107;
l	&#108;
m	&#109;
n	&#110;
o	&#111;
p	&#112;
q	&#113;
r	&#114;
s	&#115;
t	&#116;
u	&#117;
v	&#118;
w	&#119;
x	&#120;
y	&#121;
z	&#122;
{	&#123;
|	&#124;		left curly bracket
}	&#125;		vertical bar
}	&#125;		right curly bracket
~	&#126;		tilde

Extra Codes

Character	Numeric Code	Named Code	Description
	 	 	non-breaking space
¡	¡	¡	inverted exclamation mark
¢	¢	¢	cent sign
£	£	£	pound sign
¤	¤	¤	currency sign
¥	¥	¥	yen sign
¦	¦	¦	broken bar
§	§	§	section sign
¨	¨	¨	diaeresis
©	©	©	copyright sign
ª	ª	ª	feminine ordinal indicator
«	«	«	left pointing guillemet
¬	¬	¬	not sign
­	­	­	soft hyphen
®	®	®	registered sign
¯	¯	¯	macron
°	°	°	degree sign
±	±	±	plus-minussign
²	²	²	superscript two
³	³	³	superscript three
´	´	´	acute accent
µ	µ	µ	micro sign
¶	¶	¶	paragraph sign
·	·	·	middle dot
¸	¸	¸	spacing cedilla
¹	¹	¹	superscript one
º	º	º	masculine ordinal indicator
»	»	»	right pointing guillemet
¼	¼	¼	fraction one quarter
½	½	½	fraction one half
¾	¾	¾	fraction three quarters
¿	¿	¿	inverted question mark
À	À	¿	capital A with grave
Á	Á	À	inverted question mark
Â	Â	Á	capital A with acute
Ã	Ã	Â	capital A with circumflex
Ä	Ä	Ã	capital A with tilde
Å	Å	Ä	capital A with diaeresis
Æ	Æ	Å	capital A with ring
Ç	Ç	Æ	capital AE
È	È	Ç	capital C with cedilla
É	É	È	capital E with grave
Ê	Ê	É	capital E with acute
Ë	Ë	Ê	capital E with circumflex
Ì	Ì	Ë	capital E with diaeresis
Í	Í	Ì	capital I with grave
Î	Î	Ì	capital I with grave
Ï	Ï	Ï	capital I with diaeresis
Ð	Ð	Ð	capital ETH
Ñ	Ñ	Ñ	capital N with tilde
Ò	Ò	Ò	capital O with grave
Ó	Ó	Ó	capital O with acute
Ô	Ô	Ô	capital O with circumflex
Õ	Õ	Õ	capital O with tilde
Ö	Ö	Ö	capital O with diaeresis
×	×	×	multiplication sign
Ø	Ø	Ø	capital O with stroke
Ù	Ù	Ù	capital U with grave
Ú	Ú	Ú	capital U with acute
Û	Û	Û	capital U with circumflex
Ü	Ü	Ü	capital U with diaeresis
Ý	Ý	Ý	capital Y with acute
Þ	Þ	Þ	capital THORN
ß	ß	ß	small sharp s
à	à	à	small a with grave
á	á	á	small a with acute
â	â	&;	small a with circumflex
ã	ã	ã	small a with tilde
ä	ä	ä	small a with diaeresis
å	å	å	small a with ring above
æ	æ	æ	small ae
ç	ç	ç	small c with cedilla
è	è	è	small e with grave
é	é	é	small e with acute
ê	ê	ê	small e with circumflex
ë	ë	ë	small e with diaeresis
ì	ì	ì	small i with grave
í	í	í	small i with acute
î	î	î	small i with circumflex
ï	ï	ï	small i with diaeresis
ð	ð	ð	small eth
ñ	ñ	ñ	small n with tilde
ò	ò	òeth;	small o with grave
ó	ó	ó	small o with acute
ô	ô	ô	small o with circumflex
õ	õ	õ	small o with tilde
ö	ö	ö	small o with diaeresis
÷	÷	÷	division sign
ø	ø	ø	small o with stroke
ù	ù	ù	small u with grave
ú	ú	ú	small u with acute
û	û	û	small u with circumflex
ü	ü	ü	small u with diaeresis
ý	ý	ý	small y with acute
þ	þ	þ	small thorn
ÿ	ÿ	ÿ	small y with diaeresis

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

ASCII abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.

ASCII is the traditional name for the encoding system; the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the updated name US-ASCII, which clarifies that this system was developed in the US and based on the typographical symbols predominantly in use there.

ASCII was developed from telegraph code. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) (now the American National Standards Institute or ANSI) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963, underwent a major revision during 1967, and experienced its most recent update during 1986. Compared to earlier telegraph codes, the proposed Bell code and ASCII were both ordered for more convenient sorting (i.e., alphabetization) of lists, and added features for devices other than teleprinters.

Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart above. Ninety-five of the encoded characters are printable: these include the digits 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, and punctuation symbols. In addition, the original ASCII specification included 33 non-printing control codes which originated with Teletype machines; most of these are now obsolete, although a few are still commonly used, such as the carriage return, line feed and tab codes. (wikipedia.org)

ASCII reserves the first 32 codes (numbers 0–31 decimal) for control characters: codes originally intended not to represent printable information, but rather to control devices (such as printers) that make use of ASCII, or to provide meta-information about data streams such as those stored on magnetic tape.

Codes 20hex to 7Ehex, known as the printable characters, represent letters, digits, punctuation marks, and a few miscellaneous symbols. There are 95 printable characters in total.

Extended ASCII (EASCII or high ASCII) character encodings are eight-bit or larger encodings that include the standard seven-bit ASCII characters, plus additional characters. Using the term "extended ASCII" on its own is sometimes criticized,[1][2][3] because it can be mistakenly interpreted to mean that the ASCII standard has been updated to include more than 128 characters or that the term unambiguously identifies a single encoding, neither of which is the case.

There are many extended ASCII encodings (more than 220 DOS and Windows codepages). EBCDIC ("the other" major 8-bit character code) likewise developed many extended variants (more than 186 EBCDIC codepages) over the decades.