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Sometimes we need to add some special characters like a copyright © sympbol or signs like <, $, & and so on. These special characters are called HTML entities. In this Lesson we will show you how you can add these HTML entities to your web pages.

An HTML entity has three parts: an ampersand (&), an entity name or a # and an entity number, and finally a semicolon (;).

For example if we need to display a less than (<) sign in our web page, we will write: < or <

A question arises: What is the difference between the entity name and the entity number? The answer is very simple; Traditionaly HTML used to support entity numbers and later the capability of entity names was also added. Most web designers feel comfortable with the entity names as they are easier to remember.

Some commonly used HTML Entities

Entity	Description	Name	Number
	non-breaking space
<	less than	<	<
>	greater than	>	>
&	ampersand	&	&
"	quotation mark	"	"
¢	cent	¢	¢
£	pound	£	£
¥	yen	¥	¥
€	euro	€	€
§	section	§	§
©	copyright	©	©
®	registered trademark	®	®
×	multiplication	×	×
÷	division	÷	÷

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