Question: I'm trying to use a $ sign in my html page, in which i use the html code below

```
$dollar;

```

Although in IE it doesn't seem to render the dollar sign.... Any ideas?

Answer: 
You don't need an HTML entity for the dollar sign since $ is already on your ASCII keyboard. Just type $ (usually as `Shift`+`4`).

Anyway, HTML entities start with `&` (ampersand), not `$` (dollar).
There is no [named entity defined in HTML](http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html) for the `$` sign, but since the character appears in ASCII (and every other character encoding) and has no special meaning in HTML, you never need to use one.