How to print a pound “£” in html file?

Question

i am trying to display a pound sign in my html page.i want to display it through a variable because i am getting the values of sign from an xml file.

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Answer 1

You can use \u00A3 ...

Demo

Alternatively you can use entity name as £ or entity number as £ as well but you need to use .html() and NOT .text()

And use var and not Var

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As you commented, I see you are getting more troubles with this, if you want you can accomplish this easily with CSS like

#monthly_amt:before {
    content: "'£'"; /* Or you can use \00a3 instead of £ */
}

And your jQuery will be

var monthlypayment = 1000;
$('#monthly_amt').text(monthlypayment);

And if the element is dynamically generated, you can get rid of it using .remove()

Demo 2