Entities in HTML

Some characters are reserved in HTML. For eg.
- The less than symbol (<)
- The greater than symbol (>)
If we use to try to output directly in HTML code, the browser will get confused.
For solving this we will use HTML entities.
HTML entities are used to display reserved characters in HTML.
The characters that are not on the keyboard can also replace with entities.
There are two ways to use entities.
1. The entity name should start with '&'' and end with a semicolon ';'
  eg., < (This is the entity for less than symbol). This will add '<' to the output.
2. Preface the entity number with & and end with.
  eg., <
The entity name is so easy to remember. But all the browsers will not support entity number. But for the support numbers are good.
Entity names are case sensitive.
All the symbols will not have the entity name. You must use an entity name to create them.
Some common entity names:
1. &nbsp - Space
2. &amp - @
3. &lt - <
4. &gt - >
5. © - c(rounded)

Example:

     <html>
     <head>
      <title>This is for testing</title>
     </head>
     <body>
      <p>The heading tag in html looks like &lt;h2&gt;</p>
     </body>
     </html>

Entities in HTML

Example:

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