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Small a with Diaeresis HTML entity ä
ä is the HTML entity for Small a with Diaeresis ä (U+00E4). Copy the decimal ä and hex ä codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
ä- Legacy form
ä(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00E4
- Unicode name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Lowercase letter (Ll)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | äWorks in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | äWorks in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | äWorks in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\E4";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00E4"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00e4"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C3%A4Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 A42 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00E41 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
ä writes U+00E4 (Small a with Diaeresis), 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 ä without a semicolon, for compatibility with old pages; new HTML should always end the reference with a semicolon.
More latin letters with accents
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).