Oct
08

Find HTMLEntity for any Character

vjeux Javascript 2011-10-08

I've always be annoyed when I want to use a character such as » in HTML as I struggle to find the corresponding HTML Entity. This is why I made this small utility. Just paste the sexy UTF-8 character you found and it will give you the associated HTML-ready code 🙂

Enter any weird character:

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