What are Emojis?
Emojis look like images, but they are not.
Emojis are letters (characters) from the UTF-8 (Unicode) character set:
😄 😍 💗
UTF-8 covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world.
| Emoji | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 🗻 | 🗻 | |
| 🗼 | 🗼 | |
| 🗽 | 🗽 | |
| 🗾 | 🗾 | |
| 🗿 | 🗿 | |
| 😀 | 😀 | |
| 😁 | 😁 | |
| 😂 | 😂 | |
| 😃 | 😃 | |
| 😄 | 😄 | |
| 😅 | 😅 |
HTML Emojis Examples
- Smileys — 😀 😂 😊 😎 😜
- Hands — ✌ ✊ ☝ ✋ 👌
- People — 👮 🧕 👦 💏 🤴
- Office — 📈 💻 📌 📆 📒
- Places — ⛺ 🌋 🗽 🗿 🏢
- Transport — 🚈 🚗 🚢 🚌 🚀
- Animals — 🐴 🐕 🐘 🐻 🐞
- Food — ☕ 🌭 🍞 🍩 🍣
- Plants — 🌴 🌳 🌼 🍁 🥑
- Fruits — 🍇 🍊 🍏 🥝 🥥
- Sports — ⚽ 🏆 🤿 🏋 ⛳
- Earth & Sky — 🌐 🌍 🌖 🌟 🌞
- Weather — ⛅ ☔ 🌈 🌂 ⛄
- Clothing — 👚 👕 🎩 👜 👠
- Audio/Video — 🎥 🎵 🎹 🔊 📺
- Celebration — 🎁 🎃 🎈 🎓 🎂
- Entertainment — 🎨 🎪 🎭 🎡 🎢
- Symbols — 💡 💰 🔐 🔞 🔔
The HTML charset Attribute
To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know the character set used in the page.
This is specified in the <meta> tag:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
If not specified, UTF-8 is the default character set in HTML.
UTF-8 Characters
Many UTF-8 characters cannot be typed on a keyboard, but they can always be displayed using numbers (called entity numbers):
- A is 65
- B is 66
- C is 67
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<body>
<p>I will display A B C</p>
<p>I will display A B C</p>
</body>
</html>
Example Explained
The <meta charset="UTF-8"> element defines the character set.
The characters A, B, and C, are displayed by the numbers 65, 66, and 67.
To let the browser understand that you are displaying a character, you must start the entity number with &# and end it with ; (semicolon).
Emoji Characters
Emojis are also characters from the UTF-8 alphabet:
- 😄 is 128516
- 😍 is 128525
- 💗 is 128151
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<body>
<h1>My First Emoji</h1>
<p>😀</p>
</body>
</html>
Since Emojis are characters, they can be copied, displayed, and sized just like any other character in HTML.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<body>
<h1>Sized Emojis</h1>
<p style="font-size:48px">
😀 😄 😍 💗
</p>
</body>
</html>