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Technical information
| Symbol | ||
| Name | Escape | |
| Unicode number | U+001B | |
| Category | ASCII Table1. ASCII control characters | |
| Description | The Unicode character , or U+001B, is known as the "Escape". It is part of the "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" block and falls under the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. This character does not have a visual representation, as it's a control character used to initiate escape sequences in many systems. Escape sequences are series of characters that control devices or interpret special commands in software applications, such as changing text color in console outputs, or for signaling the start of special sequences in serial communications. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity |  | |
| HTML Entity (hex) |  | |
| URL Escape Code | %1B | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x1B | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00011011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x001B | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000001B |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u001B" | |
| CSS Code | \001B | |
| JavaScript | "\u001B" | |
| Perl | \x{001B} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u001B" | |
| Python 3 | \u001B | |
| Ruby | \u{001B} |
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
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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: "\001B";
}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