HTML Lesson 3 : Character Entities

Before starting this lesson, please consider the following cases:

Some characters like the < character, have a special meaning in HTML, and therefore cannot be used in the text.

To display less than sign (<) in HTML, we have to use a character entities.

The character entities has three parts: an ampersand (&), an entities name or an # and an entities number, and finally semicolon (;).

To display a less sign in HTML document we must write : &lt; or &#60;

Please read more detail about how to define the character entities in HTML

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