Ampersand HTML Entity
&
Copy and Code Reference
The ampersand begins every HTML character reference, so a literal ampersand should be encoded when it could be read as the start of an entity.
HTML Codes
| Named entity | & |
|---|---|
| Decimal reference | & |
| Hexadecimal reference | & |
| Unicode | U+0026 |
When to Use It
Use & in URLs displayed as text, company names, code examples, and any content where an unescaped ampersand could create ambiguous markup.
Keep the final semicolon in every character reference. Modern UTF-8 documents can also contain the literal character when it is not part of HTML syntax.