These are character sequences that may appear in HTML documents; they represent sometimes useful symbols that are not part of the standard ASCII set or that would be difficult or impossible to type otherwise (e.g. the less-than sign, which would always be mistaken for the beginning of an HTML tag). Case is signinficant.

The content of this table has been throughly tested.
If the character that appears in the first column does not fit the description in the third column,
your browser has a screw loose.

Accents and things

Accents on letters are available in all sorts of (but not every possible) combination.
The accents available are:

• Acute: little dash on top, pointing to North-East,
• Grave: little dash on top, pointing to North-West,
• Circumflex: like a roof on top of the letter,
• Umlaut: two dots on top, could also be used as a dieresis,
• Tilde: wiggle on top,
• Ring: circle on top, touching the letter.

They can appear on capital and lower case versions of A, E, I, O, U, and Y.
Some consonants also have similar marks, but they are listed in the first table.

The HTML "character entities" are made by combining four elements:

1. an ampersand "&",
2. the letter to be accented, either capital or lower case,
3. the abbreviation for the desired accent:
   Acute=acute, Grave=grave, Circumflex=circ, Unlaut=uml, Dieresis=uml, Tilde=tilde, Ring=ring
4. a semicolon ";"

Example: for a capital E with a grave accent use

The following table attempts all the combinations so you can see which work. I have marked with the abbreviation "std" all those that supposed to be there, so you should be able to rely on their presence, but you know what browsers are like.