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Ellipsis HTML entity …
… is the HTML entity for Ellipsis … (U+2026). Copy the decimal … and hex … codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
…- Also written
…- Code point
- U+2026
- Unicode name
- HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
- 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: "\2026";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2026"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2026"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%80%A6Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 A63 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 20261 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
One character for three dots, with spacing set by the font, and it cannot break across lines between its dots. Some style guides prefer three full stops; both are correct. … is an alias for the same character.
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).