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Webwork Special Characters in HTML Documents

Some characters such as greater-than and less-than signs have special meaning within HTML documents and, because of this, can't be used on a web page unless they are specified in a particular way.

Also, there are are several accented characters that are essential for correctly communicating in languages such as French, German and Spanish which cannot simply be entered from the keyboard and expected to display properly in a browser.

These special characters are specified in HTML by "surrounding" a simple description of them with an ampersand (&) and a semi-colon (;).

So, for example,

>   in your HTML doc would produce
>   on your page.
Many lists of these special characters are available online. The table below illustrates a few of the more common ones.

Special Characters in HTML

Character Name Character HTML Tag
(For characters to display correctly in the character column, they must be included in whatever font is used to view this page.)
Ampersand &&
Less than sign <&lt;
Greater than sign>&gt;
Non-breaking space &nbsp;
Inverted exclamation point¡&iexcl;
Inverted question mark¿&iquest;
Cent Sign¢&cent;
British pound£&pound;
Yen¥&yen;
Copyright©&copy;
Registered®&reg;
Degree°&deg;
Plus-or-minus sign±&plusmn;
Division sign÷&divide;
Paragraph&para;
Acute accent´&acute;
Cedilla accent¸&cedil;
Umlaut¨&uml;
A grave uppercaseÀ&Agrave;
A acute uppercaseÁ&Aacute;
A circumflex uppercaseÂ&Acirc;
A tilde uppercaseÃ&Atilde;
A umlaut uppercaseÄ&Auml;
A ring uppercaseÅ&Aring;
AE Ligature uppercaseÆ&AElig;
a grave lowercaseà&agrave;
a acute lowercaseá&aacute;
a circumflex lowercaseâ&acirc;
a tilde lowercaseã&atilde;
a umlaut lowercaseä&auml;
a ring lowercaseå&aring;
ae ligature lowercaseæ&aelig;
C cedilla uppercaseÇ&Ccedil;
c cedilla lowercaseç&ccedil;
E grave uppercaseÈ&Egrave;
E acute uppercaseÉ&Eacute;
E circumflex uppercaseÊ&Ecirc;
E umlaut uppercaseË&Euml;
e grave lowercaseè&egrave;
e acute lowercaseé&eacute;
c circumflex lowercaseê&ecirc;
e umlaut lowercaseë&euml;
I grave uppercaseÌ&Igrave;
I acute uppercaseÍ&Iacute;
I circumflex uppercaseÎ&Icirc;
I umlaut uppercaseÏ&Iuml;
i grave lowercaseì&igrave;
i acute lowercaseí&iacute;
i circumflex lowercaseî&icirc;
i umlaut lowercaseï&iuml;
N tilde uppercaseÑ&Ntilde;
n tilde lowercaseñ&ntilde;
O grave uppercaseÒ&Ograve;
O acute uppercaseÓ&Oacute;
O circumflex uppercaseÔ&Ocirc;
O tilde uppercaseÕ&Otilde;
O umlaut uppercaseÖ&Ouml;
O slash uppercaseØ&Oslash;
o grave lowercaseò&ograve;
o acute lowercaseó&oacute;
o circumflex lowercaseô&ocirc;
o tilde lowercaseõ&otilde;
o umlaut lowercaseö&ouml;
o slash lowercaseø&oslash;
U grave uppercaseÙ&Ugrave;
U acute uppercaseÚ&Uacute;
U circumflex uppercaseÛ&Ucirc;
U umlaut uppercaseÜ&Uuml;
u grave lowercaseù&ugrave;
u acute lowercaseú&uacute;
u circumflex lowercaseû&ucirc;
u umlaut lowercaseü&uuml;
Y acute uppercaseÝ&Yacute;
y acute lowercaseý&yacute;
y umlaut lowercaseÿ&yuml;
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