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title: "HTML Character Entities"
description: "Some characters are reserved in html. For example, you cannot use the greater than or less than signs within your text because the browser could mista"
author: "Amit Singh"
published: 2011-10-09
updated: 2014-09-18
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/blog/250/html-character-entities
category: "html"
tags: ["html"]
reading_time: 1 minute
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# HTML Character Entities
Some [characters](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42112/who-is-the-originator-of-avengers-characters) are reserved in html. For example, you cannot use the greater than or less than signs within your text because the [browser](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/155254/which-is-the-best-internet-browser) could [mistake](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/88393/ai-humanity-s-greatest-invention-or-final-mistake) them for markup.\
##### Commonly Used Character Entities
Note: [Entity](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/540/using-stored-procedures-with-entity-framework-in-an-asp-dot-net-application) names are [case sensitive](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/19/is-xml-case-sensitive)!
1. non- breaking [space](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12954/do-your-electrical-repair-in-your-own-space)( or )
2. less than (< or <)
3. [copyright](https://www.mindstick.com/news/3650/authors-who-contribute-to-training-ai-models-join-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-microsoft) (&[copy](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/161993/explain-the-numpy-array-copy-vs-view-with-example); or ©) etc
where one is entity name and other one entity Number\
**Note:** Browser may not [support](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/286/modi-support-for-sportsperson) all entity names while the support for entity numbers is very good.
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