Does a move html entity exist

Question

I'm looking for an html entity code for a move symbol (with left right up down arrows). The same one that appears after cursor: move; is applied in css. Does anyone know if this is possible? I can't find it anywhere.

Diatessaron

cursors MAY have matching glyphs in a font, but not likely. Use something like windows charmap to see what's available. – Leaved

Note that (for example) in Ubuntu the cursor becomes a fist (when cursor:move; is used). – Jit

Wasn't aware of that. Worth thinking about for future reference, thank you. – Diatessaron

Answer 1

The closest I found was this ✥ (✥ or ✥).

Rosel

Answer 2

✥ ✥
✥ ✥
➥➥
☇ ☇
↑↓ ↑↓
⇄ ⇄

As mentioned in the other answers, there is no exact match. Here are some that might be close enough for some.

Den

Answer 3

↔ (↔ or ↔) and ↕ (↕ or ↕) are available, however there is no up/down/left/right arrow symbol in the arrow subgroup.

Hochstetler

Ah, shame. Never mind, I've ended up just settling for ↑↓ next to each other which looks good. Since the option is essentially moving items up and down a list anyway this is fine. Thanks. – Diatessaron

The ↔ entity is defined in HTML 4.01, but the ↕ entity is an HTML5 novelty with essentially more limited browser support. – Latvina

Answer 4

No, there is no such entity, and there is even no character like that. In interesting way to check whether the symbol you are looking for exists as a character is to visit http://shapecatcher.com/ and draw it. It’s not exact science, of course.

It is generally pointless to look for HTML entity codes. Those codes add nothing to the expressive power of the language: you can use character references &#... instead, or enter the characters directly if you are using UTF-8, as you normally should. The real question, after identifying a character, is whether it is supported in fonts and what to do about this. Whether there is an HTML entity for it is really irrelevant.

Latvina

Answer 5

To the spec! Check out table 8.5, "named character references". A quick search of the word "arrow" doesn't turn up exactly what you're looking for but with over 2200 named entities, maybe you can find something that looks "close enough".

Aldrich

The HTML5 draft is not a specification. It says itself: “This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.”In particular, it adds a large number of entities, which are not supported except in fairly new browsers. – Latvina

Oh good grief go take a walk outside dude. If it works for someone's use case then it's still a good reference. No one waits for those things to become "official", which is why browser progress takes place more often than every 10 years. – Aldrich

@Toby, it simply does not work. Try testing the added entities on some browsers. – Latvina

Answer 6

I made a pen for this purpose, feel free to use it : Create a Move cursor with html + css

<div id="wrapper">
    <div class="cp-drag">
    </div>
</div>
// see codepen for css please

Forbid

Answer 7

I came to the same conclusion, no easy character, but my fix was to create a div with both the up/down arrow and side/side arrow in the same space. A bit finicky, but if you had to have it...

<div style="font-size:200%;display:inline-block;position:relative;top:-11px;left:-15px;">
    <div style="display:inline-block;">&#8596;</div>
    <div style="display:inline-block;left:-32px;position:relative;">&#8597;</div>
</div>

Pam