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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 | |
| 033 | ! | ! | |
| 034 | " | “ | |
| 035 | # | # | |
| 036 | $ | $ | |
| 037 | % | % | |
| 038 | & | & | |
| 039 | ' | ‘ | |
| 040 | ( | ( | |
| 041 | ) | ) | |
| 042 | * | * | |
| 043 | + | + | |
| 044 | , | , | |
| 045 | ‐ or − or ‐ | – | |
| 046 | . | . | |
| 047 | / | / | |
| 048-057 = digits 0-9 | |||
| 058 | : | : | |
| 059 | ; | ; | |
| 060 | < | < | |
| 061 | = | = | |
| 062 | > | > | |
| 063 | ? | ? | |
| 064 | @ | @ | |
| 065 – 090 = letters A – Z | |||
| 091 | [ | [ | |
| 092 | \ | \ | |
| 093 | ] | ] | |
| 094 | ˆ or ⁁ | ^ | |
| 095 | _ | _ | |
| 096 | None (grave accent/back apostrophe) | ` | |
| 097 – 122 = letters a – z | |||
| 123 | { | { | |
| 124 | | | | | |
| 125 | } | } | |
| 126 | ˜ or ∼ | ~ | |
| 127 | None (delete) | None | |
| 128 – 159 = unused (MS specific) | |||
| 160 | | non-breaking space | |
| 161 | ¡ | ¡ | |
| 162 | ¢ | ¢ | |
| 163 | £ | £ | |
| 164 | ¤ | ¤ | |
| 165 | ¥ | ¥ | |
| 166 | ¦ or &brkbar; | ¦ | |
| 167 | § | § | |
| 168 | ¨ or ¨ | ¨ | |
| 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 ½ | ½ | |
| 190 | ¾ | ¾ | |
| 191 | ¿ | ¿ | |
Table of HTML Escape Characters
Hopefully you found this list of HTML escape characters useful. Note that not all lists published on the Internet will validate as valid HTML and XHTML. In some cases, if you’re editing in a plain text (i.e. no formatting is applied) environment, the use of an escape character is not necessary. This is the case with characters such as the apostrophe (‘), hyphen (-), quote (“), and others located as keys on your keyboard.
Hopefully this will save you some time when creating/ formatting your web pages. Please post below with any comments or requests you may have.
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