Down angled quote (« and ») in HTML [duplicate]

Asked 15/10, 2012 at 16:5 Answered 15/10, 2012 at 16:41

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Does unicode or HTML have a vertical double guillemet (chevron)?

Is there a downwards facing alternative to &laquo and &raquo (« and » respectively)?

I have tried to find an answer elsewhere but to no avail. I assume css rotating the text is the only real answer.

Transship answered 15/10, 2012 at 16:5 Comment(4)

related: #8125763 – Leaf 15/10, 2012 at 16:13

You should have specified what you are really up to (some sort of arrows, as your comments indicate), as this is clearly not about quotation marks, despite question heading and tags. – Variable 15/10, 2012 at 16:36

It was for a sign where the text was written vertically and needed quoting ;) – Transship 16/10, 2012 at 13:38

You can use CSS rotation by 90 degrees https://mcmap.net/q/471483/-how-to-rotate-text-90-degrees-inline – Ascertain 29/5, 2019 at 21:11

The short answer to your question is "No, there aren't."

&laquo and &raquo are not actually intended as direction arrows, despite their frequent usage as such.

What they are actually intended for is hinted at by their entity names -- they're supposed to be "angled quotes".

Certain European countries (notably France) tend to use these characters for speech marks instead of the inverted-comma style quote marks that are more commonly used by the English speaking world, and that is what these characters are actually meant for -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet for more info.

Given this, it's hardly surprising that there aren't any up and down arrow variants of them.

Feel free to use them as directional arrows (everyone else does, even if the semantics are questionable), but don't expect them to have every variant you might want, because they're not graphics; they're typographical characters.

I guess if you really want to, you could use CSS to rotate the existing left and right arrows by 90 degrees. I wouldn't suggest it as a good idea though.

Chiliarch answered 15/10, 2012 at 16:26 Comment(3)

I know I'm late to the party, but I'm curious: Why do you think it's not a good idea? – Vollmer 22/1, 2018 at 3:53

Even later to the party but @RicardoZea I don't think it's a good idea since this glyph isn't square you get strange offsets when rotating. – Brabazon 8/12, 2020 at 0:37

@DanielTate They went to the moon for the first time in 1960, handling a non-square object after rotating it shouldn't be THAT much of a problem, now would it? ;). Flexbox to the rescue my friend :) - display: flex; align-items: center; Well, would you look at that beauty! – Vollmer 8/12, 2020 at 2:58

No, there are no vertical versions of those quotes. A good alternative might be these? ⇐ ⇑ ⇒ ⇓

⇐ &uArr; ⇒ &dArr;

Else, rotating is indeed going to be a good option.

Nipper answered 15/10, 2012 at 16:7 Comment(2)

He wants alternatives for « you can see this for other #2701692 – Heurlin 15/10, 2012 at 16:8

Thanks. I have looked at various unicode arrows and they aren't aesthetically pleasing for my circumstance. The closest was ▶ for ▶ which can be rotated. Maybe css rotation will have to suffice. thanks! – Transship 15/10, 2012 at 16:14

Using icon fonts might be another good option.

Here's a popular one: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

The icon you might be interested in: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/#icon/icon-chevron-down

Droit answered 15/10, 2012 at 16:41 Comment(1)

Furthermore, www.fontello.com provides the same service with a range of fonts. – Transship 19/12, 2012 at 9:46

I don't think there are such characters in Unicode (HTML has nothing to do here).

What do you intend to do with them? If the intended usage is for arrows, you can look here (for line-head arrows) and here (for triangles etc. which can be used as arrows). Those are lists of Unicode character that could be useful for you.

Ailurophile answered 15/10, 2012 at 16:9 Comment(0)

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