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| − | + | Sometimes you just want a character that is not a standard letter, that will show up in email or a webpage. For example, we made this handy 'Used Car Buying Checklist' without any HTML forms by simply using the Unicode character for a checkbox. | |
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| − | + | The standardised Unicode characters that best represent a checkbox are: | |
| − | + | ?, U+2610 Ballot box | |
| + | ?, U+2611 Ballot box with check | ||
| + | If you don't have a Unicode-safe editor you can naturally spell them as ☐ and ☑. | ||
| − | + | (There is also U+2612 using an X, ?.) | |
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| − | + | See also: [[wp:Checkbox]] [[Fonts]] [[I18N]] | |
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Revision as of 13:53, 13 January 2016
Sometimes you just want a character that is not a standard letter, that will show up in email or a webpage. For example, we made this handy 'Used Car Buying Checklist' without any HTML forms by simply using the Unicode character for a checkbox.
? ? ?[edit | edit source]
The standardised Unicode characters that best represent a checkbox are:
?, U+2610 Ballot box ?, U+2611 Ballot box with check If you don't have a Unicode-safe editor you can naturally spell them as ☐ and ☑.
(There is also U+2612 using an X, ?.)
See also: wp:Checkbox Fonts I18N
