HTML Entities Support in WordPress – is there a list?

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    zendodeb · Member ·

    I had a similar problem in 2013 with the ½ entity. It would not display properly unless I took the time to look up and encode the hex value.

    Today I tripped over the double dagger. ‡ While the single dagger works, I never liked it, because depending on the font used for display it can look like a cross.

    My issue in 2013 was solved, and I guess I had assumed that means I could pass any HTML entity through the editor, and it would display properly. I was mistaken.

    Is there a list of which ones are/are not supported?

    It is a little surprising that the parser can’t handle the escape character, or that you feel you need to do so much editing to my HTML before you publish it. But I suppose that’s because the system assumes I want to use Markdown and not HTML – which is Markup.

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    timethief · Member ·

    See here please: https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    The 1/2 fraction entity works fine for me. Are you adding it in the HTML or the Visual tab of the editor? HTML entities must be added in the HTML tab. If you add it in the Visual tab the editor will try to embed it as code instead of rendering it.

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