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Dagger HTML entity †
† is the HTML entity for Dagger † (U+2020). Copy the decimal † and hex † codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
†- Code point
- U+2020
- Unicode name
- DAGGER
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Category
- Other punctuation (Po)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and 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: "\2020";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2020"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2020"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{DAGGER}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%80%A0Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 A03 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 20201 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The dagger is the second footnote mark after the asterisk. In genealogy and biographies it marks a year of death.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).