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Getting special characters on to your web pages.
The following chart shows the special character codes for use in your HTML web pages (NOTE: not all characters will show up on a particular browser/platform combination):
IMPORTANT NOTE: Many browsers do not yet support the following special characters, so you may want to use them with caution. If the name code is repeated in the character field in the following table, then your browser does not support that meta-character.
| Character | Name Code | Notes |
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| &ldots; | <&ldots; | baseline ellipses |
| &cdots; | <&cdots; | 3 dots centered in line |
| &vdots; | <&vdots; | 3 vertical dots |
| &ddots; | <&ddots; | diagonal dots (top left to bottom right) |
| &dotfill; | <&dotfill; | centered dots fill column in an array |
| < |   | thin space |
| &sp; | <&sp; | medium space |
| < |   | em space |
| < |   | en space |
| &quad; | <&quad; | thick space |
| — | <— | em dash |
| – | <– | en dash |
| ™ | <™ | trademark symbol (TM) |
| α | <α | lowercase Greek alpha |
| β | <β | lowercase Greek beta |
| γ | <γ | lowercase Greek gamma |
| δ | <δ | lowercase Greek delta |
| ε | <ε | lowercase Greek epsilon |
| &vepsilon; | <&vepsilon; | lowercase Greek vepsilon |
| ζ | <ζ | lowercase Greek zeta |
| η | <η | lowercase Greek eta |
| θ | <θ | lowercase Greek theta |
| &vtheta; | <&vtheta; | lowercase Greek vtheta |
| ι | <ι | lowercase Greek iota |
| κ | <κ | lowercase Greek kappa |
| λ | <λ | lowercase Greek lambda |
| μ | <μ | lowercase Greek mu |
| ν | <ν | lowercase Greek nu |
| ξ | <ξ | lowercase Greek xi |
| ο | <ο | lowercase Greek omicron |
| π | <π | lowercase Greek pi |
| ϖ | <ϖ | lowercase Greek varpi |
| ρ | <ρ | lowercase Greek rho |
| ϱ | <ϱ | lowercase Greek varrho |
| σ | <σ | lowercase Greek sigma |
| &vsigma; | <&vsigma; | lowercase Greek vsigma |
| τ | <τ | lowercase Greek tau |
| υ | <υ | lowercase Greek upsilon |
| φ | <φ | lowercase Greek phi |
| ϕ | <ϕ | lowercase Greek varphi |
| χ | <χ | lowercase Greek chi |
| ψ | <ψ | lowercase Greek psi |
| ω | <ω | lowercase Greek omega |
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