| Character | ─ |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Horizontal |
| Unicode Code Point | U+2500 |
| Decimal Value | 9472 |
| Hex Value | 0x2500 |
| Category | Box Drawing |
| Windows Alt Code | Alt+196 |
| Word Alt+X Code | 2500 + Alt+X |
| Mac Shortcut | Not available — use copy/paste |
| HTML Entity | ─ |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | ─ / ─ |
| CSS Content Code | content: "\2500"; |
| JavaScript Unicode Escape | "\u{2500}" |
Box Drawings Light Horizontal is a box-drawing character used to construct borders, tables, and frames directly out of text characters — a technique still used today in terminal applications, ASCII art, and command-line tool interfaces.
Unicode block: Box Drawing (U+2500–U+257F). Box-drawing characters originate from early IBM PC "code page 437" graphics, used to draw borders, tables, and simple UI frames in text-mode DOS applications before graphical interfaces existed.
At Unicode code point U+2500 (decimal 9472), Box Drawings Light Horizontal is the 1st of 128 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, it has a documented Windows Alt code, though no dedicated single-key Mac shortcut — Mac users generally rely on copy-paste for it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.
💡 Good to know: Mixing single-line and double-line box-drawing characters in the same border will produce visual gaps — stay consistent within one drawing.
Hold Alt and type 196 on the numeric keypad.
No dedicated shortcut — click the copy button above and paste with Cmd+V.
Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.
Use the entity ─ in your HTML.