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Technical information
| Symbol | & | |
| Name | Ampersand | |
| Unicode number | U+0026 | |
| Category | ASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character &, or U+0026, is known as the "Ampersand". It is part of the "Basic Latin" block, which corresponds to the ASCII character set used widely in Western languages. This character falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category. Visually, it represents a stylized, ligatured version of the Latin "et", which means "and". The ampersand is used in English and many other languages to signify the conjunction "and". It's commonly used in text to connect items in a list, names in a partnership, or concepts that are closely related. In some programming languages, the ampersand serves specific functions, like referencing memory addresses or creating logical conjunctions. The specific interpretation of the ampersand can vary depending on its context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | & | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | & | |
| HTML Entity (named) | & | |
| URL Escape Code | %26 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x26 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00100110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0026 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000026 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0026" | |
| CSS Code | \0026 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0026" | |
| Perl | \x{0026} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0026" | |
| Python 3 | \u0026 | |
| Ruby | \u{0026} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this & in sentence and in bold like this & and in italic like this &.
input-group
Font size:
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CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>&</span>
span {
content: "\0026";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana