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Inverted Exclamation Mark HTML entity ¡
¡ is the HTML entity for Inverted Exclamation Mark ¡ (U+00A1). Copy ¡, ¡ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
¡- Legacy form
¡(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00A1
- Unicode name
- INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Other punctuation (Po)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and 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: "\A1";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00A1"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00a1"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C2%A1Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 A12 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00A11 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
Opens an exclamation in Spanish: ¡Hola! The closing mark is the ordinary exclamation mark.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
Browsers also accept the legacy form ¡ 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).