HTML Entities, Symbols, Codes

Briefly explain what HTML entities are.

• There are some characters in HTML like < > which are also called reserved characters.

• So if we like to use less than(<) or greater than(>) signs in our text or content, the browser will confuse and mix them with HTML tags.

• In order to display these characters for example less than(<) we must use character entities to display reserved characters or reserved keywords as a simple characters in HTML.

• A character entity can be written in two ways- &entity_name; or #entity_number e.g. &gt; indicates greater than or #62; indicates greater than