What's the HTML character entity for the # sign?

html character-entities
chimerical picture chimerical · Jun 11, 2010 · Viewed 89.4k times · Source

What's the HTML character entity for the # sign? I've looked around for "pound" (keeps returning the currency), and "hash" and "number", but what I try doesn't seem to turn into the right character.

Answer

BalusC picture BalusC · Jun 11, 2010

You can search it on the individual character at fileformat.info. Enter # as search string and the 1st hit will lead you to U+0023. Scroll a bit down to the 2nd table, Encodings, you'll see under each the following entries:

HTML Entity (decimal)  #
HTML Entity (hex)      #

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