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Box Drawing 1
- Unicode
- U+2500
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ─
- CSS
- \2500
The ─ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Horizontal character, originated in legacy computing environments to create borders, tables, and graphical layouts using purely text. Today, it remains highly popular in command-line interfaces, plain-text formatting, and ASCII art to draw seamless, continuous horizontal lines.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+196 or Alt+9472
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2500
- HTML
- ─
In Programming
Developers frequently use this symbol in terminal applications and command-line interfaces (CLI) to render text-based user interfaces (TUIs), progress bars, and visual directory trees.
Tags
ASCII art line
Unicode line
border
box drawing
copy paste line
horizontal
horizontal rule text
light horizontal line
line
plain-text formatting
separator line
table
terminal border
text divider