HTML code for an apostrophe

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Seemingly simple  but I cannot find anything relevant on the web   What is the correct HTML code for an apostrophe  Is it  amp  8217

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As far as I know it is  amp  39  but it seems yours works as well  See http   w3schools com tags ref ascii asp

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Although the  amp apos  entity may be supported in HTML5  it looks like a typewriter apostrophe  It looks nothing like a real curly apostrophe   which looks identical to an ending quotation mark        Just look when I write them after each other    1  right single quotation mark entity  2  apostrophe entity   rsquo   apos    I tried to find a proper entity or alt command specifically for a normal looking apostrophe  which again  looks    identical    to a closing right single quotation mark   but I haven   t found one  I always need to insert a right single quotation mark in order to get the visually correct apostrophe   If you use just      ALT   0146  or autoformat typewriter apostrophes and quotation marks as curly in a word processor like Word 2013  do use  lt meta charset  UTF-8  gt

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Even though  amp apos  reads nicer than  amp  39  and it s a shame not to use it  as a fail-safe  use  amp  39     amp apos  is a valid HTML 5 entity  however it is not a valid HTML 4 entity   Unless  lt  DOCTYPE html gt  is at the top of your HTML document  use  amp  39

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Here is a great reference for HTML Ascii codes   http   www ascii cl htmlcodes htm  The code you are looking for is   amp  39

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Here is a great reference for HTML Ascii codes   http   www ascii cl htmlcodes htm  The code you are looking for is   amp  39

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It s  amp apos    As noted by msanders  this is actually XML and XHTML but not defined in HTML4  so I guess use the  amp  39  in that case  I stand corrected

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A standard-compliant  easy-to-remember set of html quotes  starting with the right single-quote which is normally used as an apostrophe    right single-quote  mdash   amp rsquo   mdash   rsquo  left single-quote  mdash   amp lsquo   mdash   lsquo  right double-quote  mdash   amp rdquo   mdash   rdquo  left double-quote  mdash   amp ldquo   mdash   ldquo

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As far as I know it is  amp  39  but it seems yours works as well  See http   w3schools com tags ref ascii asp

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Here is a great reference for HTML Ascii codes   http   www ascii cl htmlcodes htm  The code you are looking for is   amp  39

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Use  amp apos  for a straight apostrophe   This tends to be more readable than the numeric  amp  39   if others are ever likely to read the HTML directly    Edit  msanders points out that  amp apos  isn t valid HTML4  which I didn t know  so follow most other answers and use  amp  39

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It s  amp apos    As noted by msanders  this is actually XML and XHTML but not defined in HTML4  so I guess use the  amp  39  in that case  I stand corrected

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amp  39  in decimal    27 in hex

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Use  amp apos  for a straight apostrophe   This tends to be more readable than the numeric  amp  39   if others are ever likely to read the HTML directly    Edit  msanders points out that  amp apos  isn t valid HTML4  which I didn t know  so follow most other answers and use  amp  39

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If you are looking for single quote  it is   amp  39

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Although the  amp apos  entity may be supported in HTML5  it looks like a typewriter apostrophe  It looks nothing like a real curly apostrophe   which looks identical to an ending quotation mark        Just look when I write them after each other    1  right single quotation mark entity  2  apostrophe entity   rsquo   apos    I tried to find a proper entity or alt command specifically for a normal looking apostrophe  which again  looks    identical    to a closing right single quotation mark   but I haven   t found one  I always need to insert a right single quotation mark in order to get the visually correct apostrophe   If you use just      ALT   0146  or autoformat typewriter apostrophes and quotation marks as curly in a word processor like Word 2013  do use  lt meta charset  UTF-8  gt

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Just a one more link with nicely maintained collection Html Entities

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amp  39  in decimal    27 in hex

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If you are looking for single quote  it is   amp  39

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Depends on which apostrophe you are talking about  there   s  amp apos    amp lsquo    amp rsquo  and probably numerous other ones  depending on the context and the language you   re intending to write  And with a declared character encoding of e g  UTF-8 you can also write them directly into your HTML

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Firstly  it would appear that  amp apos  should be avoided -  The curse of  amp apos   Secondly  if there is ever any chance that you re going to generate markup to be returned via AJAX calls  you should avoid the entity names  As not all of the HTML entities are valid in XML  and use the  amp  XXXX  syntax instead   Failure to do so may result in the markup being considered as invalid XML   The entity that is most likely to be affected by this is  amp nbsp   which should be replaced by  amp  160

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If you are looking for single quote  it is   amp  39

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Depends on which apostrophe you are talking about  there   s  amp apos    amp lsquo    amp rsquo  and probably numerous other ones  depending on the context and the language you   re intending to write  And with a declared character encoding of e g  UTF-8 you can also write them directly into your HTML

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Note that  amp apos  IS defined in HTML5  so for modern websites  I would advise using  amp apos  as it is much more readable than  amp  39   Check  http   www w3 org TR html5 syntax html named-character-references

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A List Apart has a nice reference on characters and typography in HTML  According to that article  the correct HTML entity for the apostrophe is  amp  8217   Example use    8217

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Sorry if this offends anyone  but there is a reasonable article on Ted Clancy s blog that argues against the Unicode committee s recommendation to use  amp  8217   RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK  and proposes using U 02BC  MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE   aka  amp  700  or  amp  x2bc   instead   In a nutshell  the article argues that    A punctuation mark  such as a quotation mark  normally separates words and phrases  while the sides of a contraction really can t be separated and still make sense  Using a modifier allows one to select a contraction with the regular expression  w  It s easier to parse quotes embedded in text if there aren t quotation marks also appearing in contractions

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You can try  amp  x0027  as seen in http   unicodinator com  0027

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Firstly  it would appear that  amp apos  should be avoided -  The curse of  amp apos   Secondly  if there is ever any chance that you re going to generate markup to be returned via AJAX calls  you should avoid the entity names  As not all of the HTML entities are valid in XML  and use the  amp  XXXX  syntax instead   Failure to do so may result in the markup being considered as invalid XML   The entity that is most likely to be affected by this is  amp nbsp   which should be replaced by  amp  160

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A List Apart has a nice reference on characters and typography in HTML  According to that article  the correct HTML entity for the apostrophe is  amp  8217   Example use    8217

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If you are looking for single quote  it is   amp  39

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Use  amp apos  for a straight apostrophe   This tends to be more readable than the numeric  amp  39   if others are ever likely to read the HTML directly    Edit  msanders points out that  amp apos  isn t valid HTML4  which I didn t know  so follow most other answers and use  amp  39

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It s  amp apos    As noted by msanders  this is actually XML and XHTML but not defined in HTML4  so I guess use the  amp  39  in that case  I stand corrected

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Firstly  it would appear that  amp apos  should be avoided -  The curse of  amp apos   Secondly  if there is ever any chance that you re going to generate markup to be returned via AJAX calls  you should avoid the entity names  As not all of the HTML entities are valid in XML  and use the  amp  XXXX  syntax instead   Failure to do so may result in the markup being considered as invalid XML   The entity that is most likely to be affected by this is  amp nbsp   which should be replaced by  amp  160

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Note that  amp apos  IS defined in HTML5  so for modern websites  I would advise using  amp apos  as it is much more readable than  amp  39   Check  http   www w3 org TR html5 syntax html named-character-references

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A List Apart has a nice reference on characters and typography in HTML  According to that article  the correct HTML entity for the apostrophe is  amp  8217   Example use    8217

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As far as I know it is  amp  39  but it seems yours works as well  See http   w3schools com tags ref ascii asp

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Use  amp apos  for a straight apostrophe   This tends to be more readable than the numeric  amp  39   if others are ever likely to read the HTML directly    Edit  msanders points out that  amp apos  isn t valid HTML4  which I didn t know  so follow most other answers and use  amp  39

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Depends on which apostrophe you are talking about  there   s  amp apos    amp lsquo    amp rsquo  and probably numerous other ones  depending on the context and the language you   re intending to write  And with a declared character encoding of e g  UTF-8 you can also write them directly into your HTML

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I ve found FileFormat info s Unicode Character Search to be most helpful in finding exact character codes  Entering simply    the character to the left of the return key on my US Mac keyboard  into their search yields several results of various curls and languages  I would presume the original question was asking for the typographically correct U 02BC    rather than the typewriter fascimile U 0027    The W3C recommends hex codes for HTML entities  see below   For U 02BC that would be  amp  x2bc   rather than  amp  x27  for U 0027  http   www w3 org International questions qa-escapes  Using character escapes in markup and CSS Hex vs  decimal  Typically when the Unicode Standard refers to or lists characters it does so using a hexadecimal value      Given the prevalence of this convention  it is often useful  though not required  to use hexadecimal numeric values in escapes rather than decimal values     http   www w3 org TR html4 charset html  5 HTML Document Representation     5 4 Undisplayable characters    If missing characters are presented using their numeric representation  use the hexadecimal  not decimal  form  since this is the form used in character set standards

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Even though  amp apos  reads nicer than  amp  39  and it s a shame not to use it  as a fail-safe  use  amp  39     amp apos  is a valid HTML 5 entity  however it is not a valid HTML 4 entity   Unless  lt  DOCTYPE html gt  is at the top of your HTML document  use  amp  39

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A List Apart has a nice reference on characters and typography in HTML  According to that article  the correct HTML entity for the apostrophe is  amp  8217   Example use    8217

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It s  amp apos    As noted by msanders  this is actually XML and XHTML but not defined in HTML4  so I guess use the  amp  39  in that case  I stand corrected

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Here is a great reference for HTML Ascii codes   http   www ascii cl htmlcodes htm  The code you are looking for is   amp  39

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Firstly  it would appear that  amp apos  should be avoided -  The curse of  amp apos   Secondly  if there is ever any chance that you re going to generate markup to be returned via AJAX calls  you should avoid the entity names  As not all of the HTML entities are valid in XML  and use the  amp  XXXX  syntax instead   Failure to do so may result in the markup being considered as invalid XML   The entity that is most likely to be affected by this is  amp nbsp   which should be replaced by  amp  160

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amp  39  in decimal    27 in hex

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Just a one more link with nicely maintained collection Html Entities

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Sorry if this offends anyone  but there is a reasonable article on Ted Clancy s blog that argues against the Unicode committee s recommendation to use  amp  8217   RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK  and proposes using U 02BC  MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE   aka  amp  700  or  amp  x2bc   instead   In a nutshell  the article argues that    A punctuation mark  such as a quotation mark  normally separates words and phrases  while the sides of a contraction really can t be separated and still make sense  Using a modifier allows one to select a contraction with the regular expression  w  It s easier to parse quotes embedded in text if there aren t quotation marks also appearing in contractions

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Depends on which apostrophe you are talking about  there   s  amp apos    amp lsquo    amp rsquo  and probably numerous other ones  depending on the context and the language you   re intending to write  And with a declared character encoding of e g  UTF-8 you can also write them directly into your HTML

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As far as I know it is  amp  39  but it seems yours works as well  See http   w3schools com tags ref ascii asp

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You can try  amp  x0027  as seen in http   unicodinator com  0027

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A standard-compliant  easy-to-remember set of html quotes  starting with the right single-quote which is normally used as an apostrophe    right single-quote  mdash   amp rsquo   mdash   rsquo  left single-quote  mdash   amp lsquo   mdash   lsquo  right double-quote  mdash   amp rdquo   mdash   rdquo  left double-quote  mdash   amp ldquo   mdash   ldquo

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I ve found FileFormat info s Unicode Character Search to be most helpful in finding exact character codes  Entering simply    the character to the left of the return key on my US Mac keyboard  into their search yields several results of various curls and languages  I would presume the original question was asking for the typographically correct U 02BC    rather than the typewriter fascimile U 0027    The W3C recommends hex codes for HTML entities  see below   For U 02BC that would be  amp  x2bc   rather than  amp  x27  for U 0027  http   www w3 org International questions qa-escapes  Using character escapes in markup and CSS Hex vs  decimal  Typically when the Unicode Standard refers to or lists characters it does so using a hexadecimal value      Given the prevalence of this convention  it is often useful  though not required  to use hexadecimal numeric values in escapes rather than decimal values     http   www w3 org TR html4 charset html  5 HTML Document Representation     5 4 Undisplayable characters    If missing characters are presented using their numeric representation  use the hexadecimal  not decimal  form  since this is the form used in character set standards

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amp  39  in decimal    27 in hex

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