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Characters and Emojis

Character entities​

Character entities 🤓 are special characters for symbols ⏰ for which there is either no easy way to type them via a keyboard or which have a reserved meaning in HTML. For example, the < or > symbols have special meaning in HTML; if you want to include them in the text, you can use &lt; and &gt;. Also, since browsers reduce multiple spaces into one space, you can use multiple &nbsp; entities to get multiple spaces.

HTML character entities

Emojies​

HTML emojies

To include emoji's:

  • Mac: Command + Control + Space
  • Windows: Right-click on the taskbar and select show touch keyboard button. This adds a keyboard icon to the system tray. Open the touch keyboard and click the emoji button.

Icons​

free icons

Font Awesome , flaticons and other sites contain free sets of scalable vector icons.

To use a Font Awesome icon: Link Font Awesome's CDN in the <head> </head> section of your HTML file:

HTML icons
Example Font Awesome Icons
<head>
	<link rel="stylesheet"  href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.0.0-beta3/css/all.min.css">
</head>

Add the icon in the <body> </body> of your HTML:

    <i class="fab fa-linkedin"></i>