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Dollar Sign HTML entity $
$ is the HTML entity for Dollar Sign $ (U+0024). Copy the decimal $ and hex $ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
$- Code point
- U+0024
- Unicode name
- DOLLAR SIGN
- Block
- Basic Latin
- Category
- Currency symbol (Sc)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
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: "\24";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u0024"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u0024"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{DOLLAR SIGN}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %24Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | 241 byte. | |
| UTF-16 | 00241 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The dollar sign needs no escaping in HTML. The name is useful in template languages and in JavaScript template literals, where $ followed by { starts a placeholder.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).