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HTML Character Entities

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Overview

HTML character entities are named or numeric references that represent characters inside HTML, such as reserved markup characters, symbols, whitespace, or characters that are hard to type directly. They allow text to be displayed without being interpreted as HTML structure.

Entities are common in rendered pages, source code, logs, email bodies, and web security analysis. They can represent reserved characters, invisible characters, symbols, or text that would otherwise be interpreted by the browser.

In this lab, you practice decoding markup-safe representations and recognizing when visible page output differs from the underlying encoded text.

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