HTML Emojis

Emojis are characters from the UTF-8 character set.

What are Emojis?

Emojis look like images, or icons, but they are not. They are letters (characters) from the UTF-8 (Unicode) character set.

The <meta> 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">

Emoji Characters

Since Emojis are characters, they can be copied and pasted just like any other letter in HTML. Or, you can use the Decimal Entity number representing the emoji.