HTML entities for British Pound and Euro symbols

Posted August 29th, 2009 in HTML and CSS

The HTML entities for the British Pound and Euro are as obvious as they should be, but I found myself recently having to look them up just to make sure I was right...

British Pound HTML entity

The British Pound entity code is this:

£

and looks like this when rendered:

£

Euro HTML entity

The Euro entity code is this:

€

and looks like this when rendered:

€

Browser capability

I remember when I looked these up that there were a few different entities for the Euro and the website I looked at mentioned some didn't work in all browser. However when I tested the above in IE6, IE7, IE8 and recent versions of the other main browsers I didn't have any issues.