Greater-than and less-than signs have special meaning within HTML documents and, because of this, can't be used on a web page unless they are specified in a particular way. These special characters are specified in HTML by "surrounding" a simple description of them with an ampersand (&) and a semi-colon (;).
Please find below a list of common characters:
| Character Name | Character | HTML Tag |
| Ampersand | & | & |
| Less than sign | < | < |
| Greater than sign | > | > |
| Non-breaking space | | |
| Inverted exclamation point | ¡ | ¡ |
| Inverted question mark | ¿ | ¿ |
| Cent Sign | ¢ | ¢ |
| British pound | £ | £ |
| Yen | ¥ | ¥ |
| Copyright | © | © |
| Registered | ® | ® |
| Degree | ° | ° |
| Plus-or-minus sign | ± | ± |
| Division sign | ÷ | ÷ |
| Paragraph | ¶ | ¶ |
| Acute accent | ´ | ´ |
| Cedilla accent | ¸ | ¸ |
| Umlaut | ¨ | ¨ |
| A grave uc | À | À |
| A acute uc | Á | Á |
| A circumflex uc | Â | Â |
| A tilde uc | Ã | Ã |
| A umlaut uc | Ä | Ä |
| A ring uc | Å | Å |
| AE Ligature uc | Æ | Æ |
| a grave lc | à | à |
| a acute lc | á | á |
| a circumflex lc | â | â |
| a tilde lc | ã | ã |
| a umlaut lc | ä | ä |
| a ring lc | å | å |
| ae ligature lc | æ | æ |
| C cedilla uc | Ç | Ç |
| c cedilla lc | ç | ç |
| E grave uc | È | È |
| E acute uc | É | É |
| E circumflex uc | Ê | Ê |
| E umlaut uc | Ë | Ë |
| e grave lc | è | è |
| e acute lc | é | é |
| c circumflex lc | ê | ê |
| e umlaut lc | ë | ë |
| I grave uc | Ì | Ì |
| I acute uc | Í | Í |
| I circumflex uc | Î | Î |
| I umlaut uc | Ï | Ï |
| i grave lc | ì | ì |
| i acute lc | í | í |
| i circumflex lc | î | î |
| i umlaut lc | ï | ï |
| N tilde uc | Ñ | Ñ |
| n tilde lc | ñ | ñ |
| O grave uc | Ò | Ò |
| O acute uc | Ó | Ó |
| O circumflex uc | Ô | Ô |
| O tilde uc | Õ | Õ |
| O umlaut uc | Ö | Ö |
| O slash uc | Ø | Ø |
| o grave lc | ò | ò |
| o acute lc | ó | ó |
| o circumflex lc | ô | ô |
| o tilde lc | õ | õ |
| o umlaut lc | ö | ö |
| o slash lc | ø | ø |
| U grave uc | Ù | Ù |
| U acute uc | Ú | Ú |
| U circumflex uc | Û | Û |
| U umlaut uc | Ü | Ü |
| u grave lc | ù | ù |
| u acute lc | ú | ú |
| u circumflex lc | û | û |
| u umlaut lc | ü | ü |
| Y acute uc | Ý | Ý |
| y acute lc | ý | ý |
| y umlaut lc | ÿ | ÿ |
