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White Square HTML entity □
□ is the HTML entity for White Square □ (U+25A1). Copy the decimal □ and hex □ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
□- Also written
□□- Code point
- U+25A1
- Unicode name
- WHITE SQUARE
- 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: "\25A1";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u25A1"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u25a1"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{WHITE SQUARE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%96%A1Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 96 A13 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 25A11 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
□ writes U+25A1 (White Square), 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.
More shapes and box drawing
▓Dark Shade▫White Small Square▒Medium Shade▭White Rectangle░Light Shade▮Black Vertical Rectangle█Full Block▱White Parallelogram
All shapes and box drawing · Every HTML entity · Encode or decode text
Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).