Box Drawings Light Vertical
Part of Box Drawing Characters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 179 on the numeric keypad to insert box drawings light vertical.
- Alt code
- Alt+179
- HTML entity
- │
- Unicode
- U+2502
About this symbol
│, the light vertical line, is Alt+179, the first of the IBM PC’s box-drawing characters in code page 437, which run from 179 to 218. Together they let DOS programs draw frames, tables and menus out of plain text.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL
- Also called
- Videotex Mosaic DG 14
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Box Drawing
- Unicode group
- Light and heavy solid lines
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Box Drawing Characters chart for related characters.