Special Characters

In HTML certain symbols are treated as special.For example -<i.e.less than symbol is considered as special symbol because it is used as the beginning of the tag.Hence we can not directly use certain symbols such as <,>,”and so on.To print these symbols we what is called as reference.This reference always begins with ampersand(&)sign.Such reference is called as entity reference.

Character   Meaning            Entity Reference

<                 less than            &lt;

 >                greater than       &gt;

&                ampersand         &amp;

"                 double quote      &quot;

'                  apostrophes        &apos;

Another type of entity reference that is used frequently is &nbps;that is non breaking space character.This entity reference is useful for defining the space between two string and informing browser for not forming the word wrapper between the strings.