Character Escape in HTML

Question

Often in coding languages, there is an escape character which either

1. makes the next character interpreted literally or

2. makes the next character interpreted as code within a string.

Is there such an escape character in HTML, or do I need Javascript to do so? Searching both the internet and stackoverflow yielded no results.

Answer 1

I assume what you're talking about is the difference from including something like "<" as a part of a tag such as <div> and as just a string to symbolize 'less than'. That is, the escape for "<" would be < . If so, you can find a full list of escapes here . No JavaScript is required.

Hope this helped.

Answer 2

As far as I know, all escape characters begin with &# and end with ; , however the actual escape character varies depending on what you're writing. Here are some references for you:

Further explanation: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes

List of escape characters: http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php?PHPSESSID=8cbbddde9a9c9825467546f1c98fe119