HTML Fundamentals

Entities & Whitespace

Escape special characters with &, <, >,  .

1Character Entities

Some characters are reserved in HTML. Use entities so the browser shows them literally instead of treating them as markup.

Example Code

<p>5 &lt; 10 &amp;&amp; 20 &gt; 5</p>
<p>Use &nbsp; for non-breaking spaces.</p>
<p>&copy; 2026 &mdash; All rights reserved.</p>

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