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# HTML ASCII Reference

The ASCII character-set is used to send information between computers on the Internet.

## The ASCII Character Set

ASCII stands for the "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". It was designed in the early 60's, as a standard character-set for computers and hardware devices like teleprinters and tapedrives.

ASCII is a 7-bit character set containing 128 characters.

It contains the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English letters from A to Z, and some special characters.

The character-sets used in modern computers, HTML, and Internet are all based on ASCII.

The following table lists the 128 ASCII characters and their equivalent HTML entity codes.

## ASCII Printable Characters

ASCII Character | HTML Entity Code | Description
--- | --- | ---
| &#32; | space
! | &#33; | exclamation mark
" | &#34; | quotation mark
# | &#35; | number sign
$ | &#36; | dollar sign
% | &#37; | percent sign
& | &#38; | ampersand
' | &#39; | apostrophe
( | &#40; | left parenthesis
) | &#41; | right parenthesis
* | &#42; | asterisk
+ | &#43; | plus sign
, | &#44; | comma
- | &#45; | hyphen
. | &#46; | period
/ | &#47; | slash
0 | &#48; | digit 0
1 | &#49; | digit 1
2 | &#50; | digit 2
3 | &#51; | digit 3
4 | &#52; | digit 4
5 | &#53; | digit 5
6 | &#54; | digit 6
7 | &#55; | digit 7
8 | &#56; | digit 8
9 | &#57; | digit 9
: | &#58; | colon
; | &#59; | semicolon
< | &#60; | less-than
= | &#61; | equals-to
> | &#62; | greater-than
? | &#63; | question mark
@ | &#64; | at sign
A | &#65; | uppercase A
B | &#66; | uppercase B
C | &#67; | uppercase C
D | &#68; | uppercase D
E | &#69; | uppercase E
F | &#70; | uppercase F
G | &#71; | uppercase G
H | &#72; | uppercase H
I | &#73; | uppercase I
J | &#74; | uppercase J
K | &#75; | uppercase K
L | &#76; | uppercase L
M | &#77; | uppercase M
N | &#78; | uppercase N
O | &#79; | uppercase O
P | &#80; | uppercase P
Q | &#81; | uppercase Q
R | &#82; | uppercase R
S | &#83; | uppercase S
T | &#84; | uppercase T
U | &#85; | uppercase U
V | &#86; | uppercase V
W | &#87; | uppercase W
X | &#88; | uppercase X
Y | &#89; | uppercase Y
Z | &#90; | uppercase Z
[ | &#91; | left square bracket
\ | &#92; | backslash
] | &#93; | right square bracket
^ | &#94; | caret
_ | &#95; | underscore
` | &#96; | grave accent
a | &#97; | lowercase a
b | &#98; | lowercase b
c | &#99; | lowercase c
d | &#100; | lowercase d
e | &#101; | lowercase e
f | &#102; | lowercase f
g | &#103; | lowercase g
h | &#104; | lowercase h
i | &#105; | lowercase i
j | &#106; | lowercase j
k | &#107; | lowercase k
l | &#108; | lowercase l
m | &#109; | lowercase m
n | &#110; | lowercase n
o | &#111; | lowercase o
p | &#112; | lowercase p
q | &#113; | lowercase q
r | &#114; | lowercase r
s | &#115; | lowercase s
t | &#116; | lowercase t
u | &#117; | lowercase u
v | &#118; | lowercase v
w | &#119; | lowercase w
x | &#120; | lowercase x
y | &#121; | lowercase y
z | &#122; | lowercase z
{ | &#123; | left curly brace
| | &#124; | vertical bar
} | &#125; | right curly brace
~ | &#126; | tilde

## ASCII Device Control Characters

The ASCII device control characters were originally designed to control hardware devices.

Control characters have nothing to do inside an HTML document.

ASCII Character | HTML Entity Code | Description
--- | --- | ---
NUL | &#00; | null character
SOH | &#01; | start of header
STX | &#02; | start of text
ETX | &#03; | end of text
EOT | &#04; | end of transmission
ENQ | &#05; | enquiry
ACK | &#06; | acknowledge
BEL | &#07; | bell (ring)
BS | &#08; | backspace
HT | &#09; | horizontal tab
LF | &#10; | line feed
VT | &#11; | vertical tab
FF | &#12; | form feed
CR | &#13; | carriage return
SO | &#14; | shift out
SI | &#15; | shift in
DLE | &#16; | data link escape
DC1 | &#17; | device control 1
DC2 | &#18; | device control 2
DC3 | &#19; | device control 3
DC4 | &#20; | device control 4
NAK | &#21; | negative acknowledge
SYN | &#22; | synchronize
ETB | &#23; | end transmission block
CAN | &#24; | cancel
EM | &#25; | end of medium
SUB | &#26; | substitute
ESC | &#27; | escape
FS | &#28; | file separator
GS | &#29; | group separator
RS | &#30; | record separator
US | &#31; | unit separator
DEL | &#127; | delete (rubout)

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