HTML notes

This page contains some notes on using HTML markup.

Named character references

See Wikipedia:List of XML and HTML character entity references

Percent-encoding

See Wikipedia:Percent-encoding.

Some special characters in URLs/URIs need to be substituted using the % character in order to avoid parsing problems such as with Markdown. Notable examples include:

Reserved characters after percent-encoding

␣

!

"

#

$

%

&

'

(

)

*

+

,

/

:

;

=

?

@

[

]

%20

%21

%22

%23

%24

%25

%26

%27

%28

%29

%2A

%2B

%2C

%2F

%3A

%3B

%3D

%3F

%40

%5B

%5D

Common characters after percent-encoding (ASCII or UTF-8 based)

␣

"

%

-

.

<

>

\

^

_

`

{

|

}

~

£

€

%20

%22

%25

%2D

%2E

%3C

%3E

%5C

%5E

%5F

%60

%7B

%7C

%7D

%7E

%C2%A3

%E2%82%AC

See also

• Mediawiki notes
• Org mode notes

External links

• bk4, reboil.com