HTML ASCII Reference

ASCII was the first character set (encoding standard) used between computers on the Internet.

Both ISO-8859-1 (default in HTML 4.01) and UTF-8 (default in HTML5), are built on ASCII.

The ASCII Character Set

ASCII stands for the "American Standard Code for Information Interchange".

It was designed in the early 60's, as a standard character set for computers and electronic devices.

ASCII is a 7-bit character set containing 128 characters.

It contains the numbers from 0-9, the upper and lower case English letters from A to Z, and some special characters.

The character sets used in modern computers, in HTML, and on the Internet, are all based on ASCII.

The following tables list the 128 ASCII characters and their equivalent number.

Char	Number	Description
	0 - 31	Control characters (see below)
	32	space
!	33	exclamation mark
"	34	quotation mark
#	35	number sign
$	36	dollar sign
%	37	percent sign
&	38	ampersand
'	39	apostrophe
(	40	left parenthesis
)	41	right parenthesis
*	42	asterisk
+	43	plus sign
,	44	comma
-	45	hyphen
.	46	period
/	47	slash
0	48	digit 0
1	49	digit 1
2	50	digit 2
3	51	digit 3
4	52	digit 4
5	53	digit 5
6	54	digit 6
7	55	digit 7
8	56	digit 8
9	57	digit 9
:	58	colon
;	59	semicolon
<	60	less-than
=	61	equals-to
>	62	greater-than
?	63	question mark
@	64	at sign
A	65	uppercase A
B	66	uppercase B
C	67	uppercase C
D	68	uppercase D
E	69	uppercase E
F	70	uppercase F
G	71	uppercase G
H	72	uppercase H
I	73	uppercase I
J	74	uppercase J
K	75	uppercase K
L	76	uppercase L
M	77	uppercase M
N	78	uppercase N
O	79	uppercase O
P	80	uppercase P
Q	81	uppercase Q
R	82	uppercase R
S	83	uppercase S
T	84	uppercase T
U	85	uppercase U
V	86	uppercase V
W	87	uppercase W
X	88	uppercase X
Y	89	uppercase Y
Z	90	uppercase Z
[	91	left square bracket
\	92	backslash
]	93	right square bracket
^	94	caret
_	95	underscore
`	96	grave accent
a	97	lowercase a
b	98	lowercase b
c	99	lowercase c
d	100	lowercase d
e	101	lowercase e
f	102	lowercase f
g	103	lowercase g
h	104	lowercase h
i	105	lowercase i
j	106	lowercase j
k	107	lowercase k
l	108	lowercase l
m	109	lowercase m
n	110	lowercase n
o	111	lowercase o
p	112	lowercase p
q	113	lowercase q
r	114	lowercase r
s	115	lowercase s
t	116	lowercase t
u	117	lowercase u
v	118	lowercase v
w	119	lowercase w
x	120	lowercase x
y	121	lowercase y
z	122	lowercase z
{	123	left curly brace
\|	124	vertical bar
}	125	right curly brace
~	126	tilde

The ASCII control characters (range 00-31, plus 127) were designed to control hardware devices.

Control characters (except horizontal tab, line feed, and carriage return) have nothing to do inside an HTML document.