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 ucÀ&Agrave;
A acute ucÁ&Aacute;
A circumflex ucÂ&Acirc;
A tilde ucÃ&Atilde;
A umlaut ucÄ&Auml;
A ring ucÅ&Aring;
AE Ligature ucÆ&AElig;
a grave lcà&agrave;
a acute lcá&aacute;
a circumflex lcâ&acirc;
a tilde lcã&atilde;
a umlaut lcä&auml;
a ring lcå&aring;
ae ligature lcæ&aelig;
C cedilla ucÇ&Ccedil;
c cedilla lcç&ccedil;
E grave ucÈ&Egrave;
E acute ucÉ&Eacute;
E circumflex ucÊ&Ecirc;
E umlaut ucË&Euml;
e grave lcè&egrave;
e acute lcé&eacute;
c circumflex lcê&ecirc;
e umlaut lcë&euml;
I grave ucÌ&Igrave;
I acute ucÍ&Iacute;
I circumflex ucÎ&Icirc;
I umlaut ucÏ&Iuml;
i grave lcì&igrave;
i acute lcí&iacute;
i circumflex lcî&icirc;
i umlaut lcï&iuml;
N tilde ucÑ&Ntilde;
n tilde lcñ&ntilde;
O grave ucÒ&Ograve;
O acute ucÓ&Oacute;
O circumflex ucÔ&Ocirc;
O tilde ucÕ&Otilde;
O umlaut ucÖ&Ouml;
O slash ucØ&Oslash;
o grave lcò&ograve;
o acute lcó&oacute;
o circumflex lcô&ocirc;
o tilde lcõ&otilde;
o umlaut lcö&ouml;
o slash lcø&oslash;
U grave ucÙ&Ugrave;
U acute ucÚ&Uacute;
U circumflex ucÛ&Ucirc;
U umlaut ucÜ&Uuml;
u grave lcù&ugrave;
u acute lcú&uacute;
u circumflex lcû&ucirc;
u umlaut lcü&uuml;
Y acute ucÝ&Yacute;
y acute lcý&yacute;
y umlaut lcÿ&yuml;



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