✗
Technical information
| Symbol | ✗ | |
| Name | Ballot x (cross) | |
| Unicode number | U+2717 | |
| Category | X marks | |
| Description | The Unicode character "✗", or U+2717, is known as the "Ballot X" or "Cross". It is part of the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol appears as a letter X, which is often used to indicate a negative response, the incorrectness of something, or the rejection of an option in a ballot or checklist. This symbol has common usage in various forms of documents and online interfaces where selection or rejection is required. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✗ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✗ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ✗ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%97 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x97 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10010111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2717 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002717 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2717" | |
| CSS Code | \2717 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2717" | |
| Perl | \x{2717} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2717" | |
| Python 3 | \u2717 | |
| Ruby | \u{2717} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ✗ in sentence and in bold like this ✗ and in italic like this ✗.
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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: "\2717";
}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