HTML Emojis

Emojis are characters from the UTF-8 character set: 😀 😄 😍

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

The UTF-8 Charset

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">

Because emojis are characters, they can be copied, displayed, and sized just like any other character.

<p>😀</p>
<p>😄</p>
<p>😍</p>

Emojis are characters, so you can change their size using the CSS font-size property:

<p style="font-size:48px">😀</p>

Char	Decimal	Hex	Description
😀	😀	😀	Grinning Face
💗	💗	💗	Growing Heart
🚗	🚗	🚗	Automobile