Page Updated:   2023-09-23

Disambiguation page for "HTML"

In Roll20, HTML can be edited and used in a few couple of ways:

• Macro Guide contains some advanced tips on how to use or style html for things that appear in the q Text Chat-tab.
• Character sheets are built with HTML & CSS, and Building Character Sheets(
  Pro
  ^info feature) has info on how edit & make your own.
  • Character Sheet Development/HTML
  • Roll Templates are built into character sheets, and can also be edited.
• Browser#Stylus have info on how you can change how Roll20 looks for you.
• You can use HTML when editing the Roll20 wiki

HTML Entities

Main Page: HTML Entities

When creating some complicated macros, usually involving nesting, you will need to use HTML entities in parts of the code to trick the Roll20 system to make it behave like you want, or some advanced tricks won't work.

Here are some HTML Entities/Escape Characters that are commonly useful to escape when creating advanced Roll20 macros. See HTML Entities or special character for more:

|, }, and , are the most common character that need to be replaced in nested macros.

Character	Replacement
| (pipe)	|, (|)
,	,, (,)
{	{, ({)
}	}, (})
&	&, (&)
space	 , ( )
=	=, (=)
_	_, (_)
(	(, (()
)	), ())
[	[, ([)
]	], (])
<	&#60;, (&lt;)
>	&#62;, (&gt;)
`(backtick, grave accent)	&#96;, (&grave;)
*(asterisk)	&#42;, (&ast;)
!	&#33;, (&excl;)
"(doublequote)	&#34;, (&quot;)
#	&#35;, (&num;)
-(hyphen)	&#45;, (&dash;)
@	&#64;, (&commat;)
%	&#37;, (&percnt;)