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Technical information
| Symbol | ||
| Name | Backspace | |
| Unicode number | U+0008 | |
| Category | ASCII Table1. ASCII control characters | |
| Description | The Unicode character "", or U+0008, is known as "Backspace". It is part of the "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" block and falls under the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a control character and does not have a visual representation; instead, it influences the behavior of the devices it is sent to. In particular, the backspace character is traditionally used to indicate the deletion of the preceding character in a stream of text, a function it serves in many programming and scripting languages, as well as in text-based user interfaces. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity |  | |
| HTML Entity (hex) |  | |
| URL Escape Code | %08 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x08 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00001000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0008 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000008 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0008" | |
| CSS Code | \0008 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0008" | |
| Perl | \x{0008} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0008" | |
| Python 3 | \u0008 | |
| Ruby | \u{0008} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .
input-group
Font size:
12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span></span>
span {
content: "\0008";
}The symbol in different fonts
-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana