What is the unicode character for the close symbol used by Twitter bootstrap?
right answer today: ×
used in close buttons
The multiplication sign ( × ) was a bit too small for what I wanted and increasing the font size broke other things, so I found these larger alternatives:
✕ Multiplication X (U+2715)
- Decimal HTML entity:
✕
- Hex HTML entity:
✕
✖ Heavy Multiplication X (U+2716)
- Decimal HTML entity:
✖
- Hex HTML entity:
✖
❌ Cross Mark (U+274C)
- Decimal HTML entity:
❌
- Hex HTML entity:
❌
I hope these will save somebody some time.
It uses ×
.
You can use the following to obtain the desired information about any character:
$ perl -Mcharnames=:full -CA -e'
printf("U+%04X %s\n", $_, charnames::viacode($_))
for unpack "W*", $ARGV[0];
' ×
U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN
If you're going to use it in HTML, you can encode it as follows:
$ perl -MHTML::Entities -CA -e'
CORE::say encode_entities($ARGV[0]);
' ×
×
Notes:
- The above programs expect the argument to be encoded using UTF-8.
- The line breaks can be removed to make true one-liners.
If you don't want to use Unicode, you can simply use the HTML character entity ×
.