Adding HTML entities using CSS content

Question

How do you use the CSS content property to add HTML entities?

Using something like this just prints  

Answer 1

I know this is an pretty old post, but if spacing is all your after, why not simply:

.breadcrumbs a::before {
    content: '>';
    margin-left: 8px;
    margin-right: 8px;
}

I have used this method before. It wraps perfectly fine to other lines with ">" by its side in my testing.