E with Acute HTML entity é

é is the HTML entity for E with Acute é (U+00E9). Copy the decimal é and hex é codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: é
Legacy form: &eacute (no semicolon)
Code point: U+00E9
Unicode name: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
Block: Latin-1 Supplement
Category: Lowercase letter (Ll)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML 4.01 and HTML5

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HTML named	`é`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`é`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`é`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\E9";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u00E9"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u00e9"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%C3%A9`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`C3 A9`2 bytes.
UTF-16	`00E9`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

e with an acute accent, as in café and résumé. One of the Latin-1 letters named in HTML 4; on a UTF-8 page you can simply type the letter.

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

Browsers also accept the legacy form &eacute 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).

E with Acute HTML entity &eacute;

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