#summary &aelig character entity
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== Value ==

There are 4 variations of this entity:

  * `Æ` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00c6/index.htm U+000C6].
  * `&AElig` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00c6/index.htm U+000C6].
  * `æ` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00e6/index.htm U+000E6].
  * `&aelig` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00e6/index.htm U+000E6].

== Browser compatibility ==

[ArticleBrowserCompatibilityLegend Compatibility table legend]

|| *Test* || *IE8* || *IE7* || *IE6* || *FF3* || *FF2* || *Saf3* || *Op9* || *Chrome* ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/aelig-000c6-entity-test.html Æ character entity treated as U+000C6] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/aelig-000e6-entity-test.html æ character entity treated as U+000E6] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/aelig-no-semicolon-000c6-entity-test.html &AElig character entity treated as U+000C6] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/aelig-no-semicolon-000e6-entity-test.html &aelig character entity treated as U+000E6] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||

== Further reading ==

  * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/named.html Named character references in HTML 5]
  * [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html Character entity references in HTML 4]
  * [http://blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm Text in HTML (blooberry.com)]