Small a with Acute HTML entity á

á is the HTML entity for Small a with Acute á (U+00E1). Copy the decimal á and hex á codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity
á
Legacy form
&aacute (no semicolon)
Code point
U+00E1
Unicode name
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
Block
Latin-1 Supplement
Category
Lowercase letter (Ll)
Since
Unicode 1.1
Defined in
HTML 4.01 and HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML namedáWorks in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimaláWorks in HTML and XML.
HTML hexáWorks in HTML and XML.
CSScontent: "\E1";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript"\u00E1"Also valid in JSON.
Python"\u00e1"Python 3 string literal.
Python by name"\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL%C3%A1Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytesC3 A12 bytes.
UTF-1600E11 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

á writes U+00E1 (Small a with Acute), a small letter from the Unicode Latin-1 Supplement block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. On a page saved as UTF-8 the letter can simply be typed; the entity helps in ASCII-only templates and code samples.

The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.

Browsers also accept the legacy form &aacute without a semicolon, for compatibility with old pages; new HTML should always end the reference with a semicolon.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).