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Pound Sign HTML entity £
£ is the HTML entity for Pound Sign £ (U+00A3). Copy the decimal £ and hex £ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
£- Legacy form
£(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00A3
- Unicode name
- POUND SIGN
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Currency symbol (Sc)
- 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: "\A3";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00A3"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00a3"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{POUND SIGN}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C2%A3Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 A32 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00A31 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The pound sign for sterling and other pounds: £20. Americans also call # the pound sign; that character is #.
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).