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Overline HTML entity ‾
‾ is the HTML entity for Overline ‾ (U+203E). Copy the decimal ‾ and hex ‾ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
‾- Also written
‾- Code point
- U+203E
- Unicode name
- OVERLINE
- 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: "\203E";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u203E"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u203e"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{OVERLINE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%80%BEPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 BE3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 203E1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
A spacing overline. For a line over a letter or number, such as a repeating decimal, CSS text-decoration: overline usually gives a better result.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
More punctuation and typography
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).