Apostrophe HTML entity '

' is the HTML entity for Apostrophe ' (U+0027). Copy the decimal ' and hex ' codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: '
Code point: U+0027
Unicode name: APOSTROPHE
Block: Basic Latin
Category: Other punctuation (Po)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML5, and predefined in XML

Codes to copy

HTML named	`'`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`'`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`'`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\27";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u0027"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u0027"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{APOSTROPHE}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%27`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`27`1 byte.
UTF-16	`0027`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

The straight single quote. ' is defined in HTML5 and XML but was missing from HTML 4, so a few very old email clients show it literally; ' works everywhere. Escape it inside attribute values wrapped in single quotes. In prose, the typographic apostrophe is ’.

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