What HTML entities actually represent
Learn how character references represent code points without changing the underlying character meaning.
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Understand HTML entity conversion
Short guides separate representation rules from document parsing and security boundaries.
Named or numeric HTML entities?
Choose a representation deliberately instead of assuming every Unicode character has a familiar entity name.
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The correct transformation depends on where data is inserted; text, attributes, URLs, CSS and JavaScript are different contexts.
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