Box Drawings Light Horizontal
Part of Box Drawing Characters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 196 on the numeric keypad to insert box drawings light horizontal.
- Alt code
- Alt+196
- HTML entity
- ─
- Unicode
- U+2500
About this symbol
Box-drawing characters let early computers draw frames, tables and windows out of plain text. They came from the IBM PC’s built-in character set, code page 437, and DOS programs used them for their menus and borders; ─ is the plain horizontal line, Alt+196. Unicode keeps 128 of them in their own block.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL
- Also called
- Videotex Mosaic DG 15
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Box Drawing
- Unicode group
- Light and heavy solid lines
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- 🮯 Box Drawings Light Horizontal With Vertical Stroke U+1FBAF
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