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Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double HTML entity ╪
╪: HTML entity for Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double ╪ (U+256A), with decimal, hex, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes to copy.
- Entity
╪- Code point
- U+256A
- Unicode name
- BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE
- 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: "\256A";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u256A"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u256a"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%95%AAPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 95 AA3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 256A1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
╪ writes U+256A (Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double), 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
╬Box Drawings Double Vertical and Horizontal╨Box Drawings Up Double and Horizontal Single▀Upper Half Block╧Box Drawings Up Single and Horizontal Double▄Lower Half Block╦Box Drawings Double Down and Horizontal█Full Block╥Box Drawings Down Double and Horizontal Single
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).