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Technical information
| Symbol | ─ | |
| Name | Box drawings light horizontal | |
| Unicode number | U+2500 | |
| Category | Light lines | |
| Description | The Unicode character ─, or U+2500, is known as the "Box Drawings Light Horizontal". It belongs to the "Box Drawing" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a straight, horizontal line that is often used to create borders or boxes in text user interfaces, diagrams, or tables. While its actual visual presentation can vary depending on the typeface used, it is generally presented as a thin, unbroken line extending from left to right. It can be combined with other box-drawing characters to create more complex shapes. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ─ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ─ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ─ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%94%80 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x94 0x80 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010100:10000000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2500 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002500 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2500" | |
| CSS Code | \2500 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2500" | |
| Perl | \x{2500} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2500" | |
| Python 3 | \u2500 | |
| Ruby | \u{2500} |
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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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>─</span>
span {
content: "\2500";
}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