Grave Accent (Backtick) HTML entity &grave;

&grave; is the HTML entity for Grave Accent (Backtick) ` (U+0060). Copy `, ` and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: &grave;
Also written: &DiacriticalGrave;
Code point: U+0060
Unicode name: GRAVE ACCENT
Block: Basic Latin
Category: Modifier symbol (Sk)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&grave;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	```Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	```Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\60";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u0060"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u0060"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{GRAVE ACCENT}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%60`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`60`1 byte.
UTF-16	`0060`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

The backtick on its own. It needs no escaping in HTML, but it marks code spans in Markdown and template literals in JavaScript. It is not the accent on a letter: for è use the letter's own name.

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).