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Left-to-Right Mark HTML entity ‎
‎ is the HTML entity for Left-to-Right Mark (U+200E). Copy the decimal ‎ and hex ‎ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
‎- Code point
- U+200E
- Unicode name
- LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Category
- Format (Cf)
- 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: "\200E";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u200E"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u200e"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%80%8EPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 8E3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 200E1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
An invisible mark with left-to-right direction. It fixes the placement of punctuation and numbers at the edge of left-to-right text inside right-to-left text, for example an English name ending in an exclamation mark within Arabic. For whole phrases, the dir attribute or <bdi> is clearer.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
It has no visible shape of its own, which is why the box above shows it with a tinted background.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).