Some characters are reserved in HTML.
If you use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your text, the browser might mix them with tags.
Character entities are used to display reserved characters in HTML.
Common Entities
- — (
—)
- ’ (
’)
- ” (
”)
- ‘ (
‘)
- “ (
“)
- « (
«)
- » (
»)
- > (
>)
- < (
<)
- → (
→)