Using Emojis in HTML
Emojis are characters from the UTF-8 character set: 😄 😍 💗
Emoji | Value | |
---|---|---|
🗻 | 🗻 | Try it » |
🗼 | 🗼 | Try it » |
🗽 | 🗽 | Try it » |
🗾 | 🗾 | Try it » |
🗿 | 🗿 | Try it » |
😀 | 😀 | Try it » |
😁 | 😁 | Try it » |
😂 | 😂 | Try it » |
😃 | 😃 | Try it » |
😄 | 😄 | Try it » |
😅 | 😅 | Try it » |
HTML Emojis Examples
🚀🚁🚂🚃🚄
💺💻💼💽💾
👮👯👰👱👲
🐂🐃🐄🐅🐆
What are Emojis?
Emojis look like images, or icons, but they are not.
They are letters (characters) from the UTF-8 (Unicode) character set.
UTF-8 covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world.
The HTML charset Attribute
To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know the character set used in the page.
This is specified in the <meta>
tag:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
If not specified, UTF-8 is the default character set in HTML.
UTF-8 Characters
Many UTF-8 characters cannot be typed on a keyboard, but they can always be displayed using numbers (called entity numbers):
- A is 65
- B is 66
- C is 67
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<body>
<p>I will display A B C</p>
<p>I will display A B C</p>
</body>
</html>
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Example Explained
The <meta charset="UTF-8">
element defines the character set.
The characters A, B, and C, are displayed by the numbers 65, 66, and 67.
To let the browser understand that you are displaying a character, you must start the entity number with &# and end it with ; (semicolon).
Emoji Characters
Emojis are also characters from the UTF-8 alphabet:
- 😄 is 128516
- 😍 is 128525
- 💗 is 128151
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<body>
<h1>My First Emoji</h1>
<p>😀</p>
</body>
</html>
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Since Emojis are characters, they can be copied, displayed, and sized just like any other character in HTML.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<body>
<h1>Sized Emojis</h1>
<p style="font-size:48px">
😀 😄 😍 💗
</p>
</body>
</html>
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