What are HTML Entities?

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In HTML some characters are RESERVED like ‘<’, ‘>’, ‘/’, etc. To use these characters in our webpage we need to use the character entities called HTML Entities. Below are a few mapping between the reserved character and its respective entity character to be used.

Character	Entity Name	Entity NUMBER
<	&AMP;lt;	<
>	>	>
&	&	&
(non-breaking SPACE) Eg. 10 PM	Eg. <p>10&nbsp&nbspPM</p>

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What are HTML Entities?

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