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Coding Special Characters in HTML
To create special characters, use a character entity. In general these are coded as follows: &<insert code here>;.
Entities begin with an ampersand (&) and end with a semi-colon (;) with something in between. You can look up these entities elsewhere (here's one, from leftlogic
In the specific case of accented letters for non-English languages, the general template is: &<letter><accent>;.
Where:
<letter> is the letter you're accenting (a, e, i, n, etc.); (use lowercase or capital letter)<accent> is the specific accent
acute is the line from the lower left to the upper rightgrave is the line from the upper left to the lower righttilde is the ~ charactercirc is the ^ character (short for circumflex)cedil is the curvy line under a "c" (short for "cedilla")
For the following, use:
- à = à
- À = À
- Á = Á
- á = á
- Ô = Ô
- ô = ô
- Ñ = Ñ
- ñ = ñ
- Ç = Ç
- ç = ç
- ö = ö
- Ö = Ö
There are many other accents—these are provided as examples.
