Lesson 2: Font Tags
(Special Characters)

In HTML, you display special characters by using character entities in one of two forms: named entities and numbered entities. All entities start with an ampersand "&" and end with a semicolon ";". The most widely-used characters are listed below, but there are well over 200 special characters defined.

< = &lt; © = &copy;" = &quot;¼ = &#188;
> = &gt; ® = &reg;    = &nbsp;½ = &#189;
& = &amp;¢ = &#162;° = &deg; ¾ = &#190;