Entities

The following entity names are used in HTML , always prefixed by ampersand (&) and followed by a semicolon as shown. They represent particular graphic characters which have special meanings in places in the markup, or may not be part of the character set available to the writer.

<
The less than sign <
&gt;
The "greater than" sign >
&amp;
The ampersand sign &itself.
&quot;
The double quote sign "
&nbsp;
A non-breaking space

Also allowed are references to any of the ISO Latin-1 alphabet, using the entity names in the following table.