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Solidus (Slash) HTML entity /
/ is the HTML entity for Solidus (Slash) / (U+002F). Copy the decimal / and hex / codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
/- Code point
- U+002F
- Unicode name
- SOLIDUS
- Block
- Basic Latin
- Category
- Other punctuation (Po)
- 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: "\2F";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u002F"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u002f"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{SOLIDUS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %2FPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | 2F1 byte. | |
| UTF-16 | 002F1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The ordinary slash. It needs no escaping in HTML, but inside a script block the sequence </ can end the script early, which is why JSON embedded in HTML often writes it as \/.
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.
More html syntax and ascii punctuation
;Semicolon,Comma<Less-Than Sign+Plus Sign=Equals Sign*Asterisk>Greater-Than Sign)Right Parenthesis
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).