What's the HTML character entity for the # sign?

Question

What\'s the HTML character entity for the # sign? I\'ve looked around for \"pound\" (keeps returning the currency), and \"hash\" and \"number\", but what I try doesn\'t seem to

Answer 1

There is no HTML character entity for the # character, as the character has no special meaning in HTML.

You have to use a character code entity like # if you wish to HTML encode it for some reason.