To get special characters to show on an HTML web page, special HTML codes can be used (ascii code or word) and are interpretted by the web browser. These HTML codes are otherwise referred to as html entities, html characters or html symbols.

- These symbols should display in files using charsets ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8.

The following list includes the HTML codes for the ASCII symbols used on Web pages. HTML codes that are very useful for a webmaster.