Some characters are reserved in HTML that has special meaning.HTML entities are used to display invisible characters and reserved characters that might be interpreted as HTML code. HTML entities is a piece of text, or string, that begins with an ampersand (&) and ends with a semicolon (;).
Few HTML Entities are:
- – non-breaking space
- < – less than sign
- > – greater than sign
- & – ampersand (&)
- " – double quotation mark
- ' – single quotation mark
- ¢ – cent sign
- £ – pound sign