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Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single HTML entity ╫
╫: HTML entity for Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single ╫ (U+256B), with decimal, hex, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes to copy.
- Entity
╫- Code point
- U+256B
- Unicode name
- BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE
- Block
- Box Drawing
- Category
- Other symbol (So)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ╫Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ╫Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ╫Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\256B";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u256B"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u256b"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%95%ABPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 95 AB3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 256B1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
╫ writes U+256B (Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single), a symbol from the Unicode Box Drawing block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Box drawing and block characters only line up in a monospaced font, such as inside <pre> or <code>.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
More shapes and box drawing
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).