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 ▾ -