Jan 12 2007

HTML Escape Characters

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HTML

Looking for a List of Valid HTML (and XHTML) Escape Characters?

HTML escape character lists often include characters between 128 and 159 - the problem is that these are Microsoft specific, and are reserved for control characters in the standard Internet character sets. In HTML they are undefined, and in XHTML they are completely invalid. Here is a list of valid HTML/XHTML escape characters you should use.

Table of HTML Escape Characters
Decimal Value (&#DV;)	Escape Character	Output
0 - 031	None	Nothing
032	&sp; or &blank;	Blank
033	&excl;	!
034	"	"
035	&num;	#
036	&dollar;	$
037	&percnt;	%
038	&	&
039	'	'
040	(	(
041	)	)
042	&ast;	*
043	+	+
044	,	,
045	&hyphen; or − or &dash;	-
046	&period;	.
047	/	/
048-057 = digits 0-9
058	&colon;	:
059	&semi;	;
060	<	<
061	=	=
062	>	>
063	&quest;	?
064	&commat;	@
065 - 090 = letters A - Z
091	[	[
092	\	\
093	]	]
094	ˆ or &caret;	^
095	&lowbar;	_
096	None (grave accent/back apostrophe)	`
097 - 122 = letters a - z
123	{	{
124	\|	\|
125	}	}
126	&tilde; or &sim;	~
127	None (delete)	None
128 - 159 = unused (MS specific)
160		non-breaking space
161	¡	¡
162	¢	¢
163	£	£
164	¤	¤
165	¥	¥
166	¦ or &brkbar;	¦
167	§	§
168	¨ or &die;	¨
169	©	©
170	ª	ª
171	«	«
172	¬	¬
173	(soft hyphen)	None
174	®	®
175	¯ or &hibar;	¯
176	°	°
177	±	±
178	²	²
179	³	³
180	´	´
181	µ	µ
182	¶	¶
183	·	·
184	¸	¸
185	¹	¹
186	º	º
187	»	»
188	¼	¼
189	½ or &half;	½
190	¾	¾
191	¿	¿

Additional tables of Latin characters coming soon!