What characters can be used for up/down triangle (arrow without stem) for display in HTML?
I'm looking for a HTML or ASCII character which is a triangle pointing up or down so that I can use it as a toggle switch.
I found ↑ (
↑), and ↓ (↓) - but those have a narrow stem. I'm looking just for the HTML arrow "head".Answer:
Unicode arrows heads:
- ▲ - U+25B2 BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE
- ▼ - U+25BC BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
- ▴ - U+25B4 SMALL BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE
- ▾ - U+25BE SMALL BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
For ▲ and ▼ use
▲ and ▼ respectively if you cannot include Unicode characters directly (use UTF-8!).
Note that the font support for the smaller versions is not as good. Better to use the large versions in smaller font.
More Unicode arrows are at:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28symbol%29#Arrows_in_Unicode
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes
Lastly, these arrows are not ASCII, including ↑ and ↓: they are Unicode.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2701192/what-characters-can-be-used-for-up-down-triangle-arrow-without-stem-for-displa
