What's the HTML character entity for the # sign?

Question

What\'s the HTML character entity for the # sign? I\'ve looked around for \"pound\" (keeps returning the currency), and \"hash\" and \"number\", but what I try doesn\'t seem to

Answer 1

You can search it on the individual character at fileformat.info. Enter # as search string and the 1st hit will lead you to U+0023. Scroll a bit down to the 2nd table, Encodings, you'll see under each the following entries:

HTML Entity (decimal)  #
HTML Entity (hex)      #