These character entity reference tables have been compiled using the data at w3.org . Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with conforming SGML systems and applications as defined in ISO 8879, provided this notice is included in all copies.
Here’s the problem: when you write your own HTML or you use a content management system like Wordpress (using the HTML editor) and you want to showcase HTML code or any other code within a post then you have to do two things:
use Character Entities to represent the less than (< ), greater than (>), forward-slash (/), back-slash (\) and ampisand (&) characters so that the represented characters are displayed rather than used to designate code tags; and
use the
and tags to instruct web browsers to display characters within their opening an closing tags in a monospace font i.e a font where each character has an equal width.
