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Technical information

Symbol	✗
Name	Ballot x (cross)
Unicode number	U+2717
Category	X marks

Description

The Unicode character "✗", or U+2717, is known as the "Ballot X" or "Cross". It is part of the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol appears as a letter X, which is often used to indicate a negative response, the incorrectness of something, or the rejection of an option in a ballot or checklist. This symbol has common usage in various forms of documents and online interfaces where selection or rejection is required.

Encoding

HTML Entity	✗
HTML Entity (hex)	✗
HTML Entity (named)	✗
URL Escape Code	%E2%9C%97
UTF-8 (hex)	0xE2 0x9C 0x97
UTF-8 (binary)	11100010:10011100:10010111
UTF-16	0x2717
UTF-32	0x00002717

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u2717"
CSS Code	\2717
JavaScript	"\u2717"
Perl	\x{2717}
Python 2	u"\u2717"
Python 3	\u2717
Ruby	\u{2717}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

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input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#10007;</span>

span {
    content: "\2717";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system

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Apple Color Emoji

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Arial

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BlinkMacSystemFont

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Courier New

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Georgia

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Droid Sans

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Helvetica

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Noto Sans

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Oxygen

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Roboto

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"Segoe UI"

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sans-serif

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Segoe UI Emoji

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Segoe UI Symbol

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system-ui

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Times New Roman

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Ubuntu

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Verdana

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