Character Entities

The < and > characters, which have a special meaning in html, cannot be used in text. To display them, you must use character entities. A character entity has three parts: an ampersand (&), an entity name or a # and entity number, and a semicolon (;).
If you wanted to display a less than sign (<) in a html document, for example, you could use &lt or &#60.
The advantage of using the name is that it is easy to remember. The problem is that not all browsers can read the newest names, but almost all can read the numbers.
NOTE: Entities are case sensitive (&lt, not &LT). A few of the most common character entities are:

Result	Description	Name of Entity	Number of Entity
	non-breaking space	 	&#160
<	less than	&lt;	&#60;
>	greater than	&gt;	&#62;
&	ampersand	&amp;	&#38;
“	quotation mark	&quot;	&#34;
‘	apostrophe		&#39;
¢	cent	&cent;	&#162;
£	pound	&pound;	&#163;
¥	yen	&yen;	&#165;
§	section	&sect;	&#167;
©	copyright	&copy;	&#169;
®	registered trademark	&reg;	&#174;
x	multiplication	&times;	&#215;
÷	division	&divide;	&#247;

For more entities, go to www.w3school.com’s entities reference list.
To learn how to create html links, click on “next”.