About Box Drawings Light Horizontal Forms Light Horizontal
Box Drawings Light Horizontal Forms Light Horizontal is the Unicode character ─ at codepoint U+2500 in the Box Drawing block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
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How to Use Box Drawings Light Horizontal Forms Light Horizontal
To use the Box Drawings Light Horizontal Forms Light Horizontal symbol (─) in HTML, insert the
entity ─ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ─ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2500';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2500' evaluates to ─. In Python source, write '\u2500'.
The character encodes to E2 94 80 as UTF-8 bytes and 2500 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9472.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.