About Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar
Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar is the Unicode character ‖ at codepoint U+2016 in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar
To use the Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar 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: '\2016';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2016' evaluates to ‖. In Python source, write '\u2016'.
The character encodes to E2 80 96 as UTF-8 bytes and 2016 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8214.
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.