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Black Vertical Rectangle HTML entity ▮
▮ is the HTML entity for Black Vertical Rectangle ▮ (U+25AE). Copy ▮, ▮ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
▮- Code point
- U+25AE
- Unicode name
- BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE
- Block
- Geometric Shapes
- 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: "\25AE";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u25AE"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u25ae"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%96%AEPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 96 AE3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 25AE1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
▮ writes U+25AE (Black Vertical Rectangle), a symbol from the Unicode Geometric Shapes 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.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).