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Left Arrow HTML entity ←
← is the HTML entity for Left Arrow ← (U+2190). Copy the decimal ← and hex ← codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
←- Also written
←←←←- Code point
- U+2190
- Unicode name
- LEFTWARDS ARROW
- Block
- Arrows
- Category
- Math symbol (Sm)
- 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: "\2190";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2190"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2190"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LEFTWARDS ARROW}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%86%90Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 86 903 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 21901 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
A leftwards arrow for 'back' links and 'from' relations. The double form ⇐ is the logical 'is implied by'. When an arrow is the only content of a link, give the link a text label too.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
More arrows
→Right Arrow↓Down Arrow↔Left Right Arrow↕Up Down Arrow↖North West Arrow↗North East Arrow↘South East Arrow↙South West Arrow
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).