html-entity

&

&

&

HTML named character reference & maps to U+0026.

Mapping

Named reference
&
Code point(s)
U+0026
Decimal
38
Characters
&

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (&) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02