Example of HTML entity.md

created	2026-05-03 23:51
source	https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design-v9/lecture-html-fundamentals/what-are-html-entities
tags	HTML Literature

The problem

Suppose you wanted to write the following sentence:

This sentence contains the <img /> element

The result would look like this:

This sentence contains the element

The cause

Both < and > are [[reserved characters]] in HTML, so invoking them in a page that reads HTML will attempt to run it as HTML.

The solution

In order to display the sentence above, you would instead need to write the [[HTML entity]] for < and >.

HTML entities always begin with &, and end with ;

Example

• The entity for < is <
• The entity for > is >

So, the sentence would be written as:

This sentence contains the <img /> element

And would then be displayed as:

This sentence contains the <img /> element