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In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.
Incorrect HTML entity escaping may also open up security vulnerabilities for injection attacks such as cross-site scripting. If HTML attributes are left unquoted, certain characters, most importantly whitespace, such as space and tab, must be escaped using entities. Other languages related to HTML have their own methods of escaping characters.
1 List of XML and HTML character entity references. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: Featured list candidates/List of XML and HTML character entity references.
Character entities can be included in an HTML document via the use of entity references, which take the form &EntityName;, where EntityName is the name of the entity. For example, —, much like — or —, represents U+2014: the em dash character "—" even if the character encoding used doesn't contain that character.
HTML markup consists of several key components, including those called tags (and their attributes), character-based data types, character references and entity references. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like < h1 > and </ h1 >, although some represent empty elements and so are unpaired, for example < img >.
An empty element may be: An empty HTML element, one with tag(s) but no content (HTML element § Empty element) An empty XML element, one with tag(s) but no content (XML § Key terminology) An empty SGML element, one with tag(s) but no content (Standard Generalized Markup Language § EMPTY).
A. all named entities from the spec are in the table B. no named entity outside of the spec is in the table C. the decimal code points corresponding to the named entities is as per the spec D. the code points are in format "U+HHHH (D)" E. the hexadecimal value of the code points match the decimal value
A table cell is one grouping within a chart table used for storing information or data. Cells are grouped horizontally (rows of cells) and vertically (columns of cells). Each cell contains information relating to the combination of the row and column headings it is collinear