HTML 7-BIT ASCII Reference

HTML uses standard 7-BIT ASCII when transmitting data over the Web.

7-BIT ASCII represents 128 different character values (0-127).

7-BIT Printable ASCII Characters

Result	Description	Entity Number
	space
!	exclamation mark	!
"	quotation mark	"
#	number sign	#
$	dollar sign	$
%	percent sign	%
&	ampersand	&
'	apostrophe	'
(	left parenthesis	(
)	right parenthesis	)
*	asterisk	*
+	plus sign	+
,	comma	,
-	hyphen	-
.	period	.
/	slash	/
0	digit 0	0
1	digit 1	1
2	digit 2	2
3	digit 3	3
4	digit 4	4
5	digit 5	5
6	digit 6	6
7	digit 7	7
8	digit 8	8
9	digit 9	9
:	colon	:
;	semicolon	;
<	less-than	<
=	equals-to	=
>	greater-than	>
?	question mark	?
@	at sign	@
A	uppercase A	A
B	uppercase B	B
C	uppercase C	C
D	uppercase D	D
E	uppercase E	E
F	uppercase F	F
G	uppercase G	G
H	uppercase H	H
I	uppercase I	I
J	uppercase J	J
K	uppercase K	K
L	uppercase L	L
M	uppercase M	M
N	uppercase N	N
O	uppercase O	O
P	uppercase P	P
Q	uppercase Q	Q
R	uppercase R	R
S	uppercase S	S
T	uppercase T	T
U	uppercase U	U
V	uppercase V	V
W	uppercase W	W
X	uppercase X	X
Y	uppercase Y	Y
Z	uppercase Z	Z
[	left square bracket	[
\	backslash	\
]	right square bracket	]
^	caret	^
_	underscore	_
`	acute accent	`
a	lowercase a	a
b	lowercase b	b
c	lowercase c	c
d	lowercase d	d
e	lowercase e	e
f	lowercase f	f
g	lowercase g	g
h	lowercase h	h
i	lowercase i	i
j	lowercase j	j
k	lowercase k	k
l	lowercase l	l
m	lowercase m	m
n	lowercase n	n
o	lowercase o	o
p	lowercase p	p
q	lowercase q	q
r	lowercase r	r
s	lowercase s	s
t	lowercase t	t
u	lowercase u	u
v	lowercase v	v
w	lowercase w	w
x	lowercase x	x
y	lowercase y	y
z	lowercase z	z
{	left curly brace	{
\|	vertical bar	\|
}	right curly brace	}
~	tilde	~

7-BIT ASCII Device Control Characters

ASCII device control characters were originally designed to control hardware devices like printers and tape drives. These characters have nothing to do inside any HTML document.

Result	Description	Entity Number
NUL	null character
SOH	start of header
STX	start of text
ETX	end of text
EOT	end of transmission
ENQ	enquiry
ACK	acknowledge
BEL	bell (ring)
BS	backspace
HT	horizontal tab
LF	line feed
VT	vertical tab
FF	form feed
CR	carriage return
SO	shift out
SI	shift in
DLE	data link escape
DC1	device control 1
DC2	device control 2
DC3	device control 3
DC4	device control 4
NAK	negative acknowledge
SYN	synchronize
ETB	end transmission block
CAN	cancel
EM	end of medium
SUB	substitute
ESC	escape
FS	file separator
GS	group separator
RS	record separator
US	unit separator
DEL	delete (rubout)

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