Technical information

Symbol
NameCharacter tabulation
Unicode numberU+0009
CategoryASCII Table1. ASCII control characters
DescriptionThe Unicode character U+0009, is known as the "Character Tabulation" or more commonly as the "Tab". It is part of the "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" block and is categorized under the "Other, Control" category according to the Unicode standard. In text, this character doesn't produce a visible symbol, but serves to control the position of text. Typically, the tab character moves the cursor to the next tab stop on a line. It's used for aligning text and creating structured white space in documents and programming.

Encoding

HTML Entity	
HTML Entity (hex)	
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%09
UTF-8 (hex)0x09
UTF-8 (binary)00001001
UTF-160x0009
UTF-320x00000009

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u0009"
CSS Code\0009
JavaScript"\u0009"
Perl\x{0009}
Python 2u"\u0009"
Python 3\u0009
Ruby\u{0009}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\0009";
}

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

References