Often times you see stylish fancy HTML symbols on webpages. These symbols actually look like HTML text icons and can easily be used in place of a PNG image. Because these are text symbols, you have full control on their color and size. You can use CSS to alter the color and size of these HTML text symbols. These symbols include icons for scissors, stars, flowers, pencils, numbers, arrows and leaves etc. Following table gives you these symbols as well as codes for displaying them on your webpage.
When you'll Hover over any of the symbol, you'll see various codes associated with that code. Decimal, Octal value, Hex value, Unicode, HTML entity code and JavaScript escaped codes have been provided. If you want to use these symbols in your web page, you should use HTML entity code. Just copy it and paste it in your HTML code.
In the above list, if you see an empty character —it means no Unicode has yet been defined for that code. In case you see a gibberish box instead proper character, it means your computer does not have appropriate glyph to display that character.