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Reserved characters in HTML are replaced with character entities.

TML Entities

Some characters are reserved in HTML.

The less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in the text, the browser might mix them with tags.

Character entities display reserved characters in HTML.

A character entity is displayed like this:

&entity_name;

OR

_number;

To display a less than sign (<) we must write: < or <

Non-breaking Space

 The non-breaking space: &nbsp is a commonly used entity in HTML.

A non-breaking space is a space that does not break into a new line.

Two words separated by a non-breaking space are together. This is useful when breaking the words might be disruptive.

Examples:

10

10 km/h

10 PM

The other use of the non-breaking space is to avoid browsers from truncating spaces in HTML pages.

Writing 10 spaces in the text, the browser will remove 9 of them. To add real spaces to your text, you can use the   character entity.