HTML for the Pause symbol in audio and video control
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I'm trying to find the Unicode symbol to make a button display the Unicode pause symbol. I was able to find that the Unicode play symbol is ► but I'm looking for the equivalent of the Unicode pause symbol.
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Solution 1 - Html
Unicode Standard for Media Control Symbols
> ## Pause: ⏸︎
The Unicode Standard 13.0 (update 2020) provides the Miscellaneous Technical glyphs in the HEX range 2300–23FF
Miscellaneous Technical
Given the extensive Unicode 13.0 documentation, some of the glyphs we can associate to common Media control symbols would be as following:
>### Keyboard and UI symbols >23CF ⏏︎ Eject media
> ### User interface symbols
> 23E9 ⏩︎ fast forward
> 23EA ⏪︎ rewind, fast backwards
> 23EB ⏫︎ fast increase
> 23EC ⏬︎ fast decrease
> 23ED ⏭︎ skip to end, next
> 23EE ⏮︎ skip to start, previous
> 23EF ⏯︎ play/pause toggle
> 23F1 ⏱︎ stopwatch
> 23F2 ⏲︎ timer clock
> 23F3 ⏳︎ hourglass
> 23F4 ⏴︎ reverse, back
> 23F5 ⏵︎ forward, next, play
> 23F6 ⏶︎ increase
> 23F7 ⏷︎ decrease
> 23F8 ⏸︎ pause
> 23F9 ⏹︎ stop
> 23FA ⏺︎ record
> ### Power symbols from ISO 7000:2012
> 23FB ⏻︎ standby/power
> 23FC ⏼︎ power on/off
> 23FD ⏽︎ power on
> 2B58 ⭘︎ power off
> ### Power symbol from IEEE 1621-2004
> 23FE ⏾︎ power sleep
Use on the Web:
A file must be saved using UTF-8 encoding without BOM (which in most development environments is set by default) in order to instruct the parser how to transform the bytes into characters correctly. <meta charset="utf-8"/> should be used immediately after <head> in a HTML file, and make sure the correct HTTP headers Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 are set.
Examples:
HTML
⏩ Pictograph
⏩︎ Standardized Variant
CSS
.icon-ff:before { content: "\23E9" }
.icon-ff--standard:before { content: "\23E9\FE0E" }
JavaScript
EL_iconFF.textContent = "\u23E9";
EL_iconFF_standard.textContent = "\u23E9\uFE0E"
Standardized variant
To prevent a glyph from being "color-emojified" ⏩︎ / ⏩ append the code U+FE0E Text Presentation Selector to request a Standardized variant: (example: ⏩︎)
Inconsistencies
Characters in the Unicode range are susceptible to the font-family environment they are used, application, browser, OS, platform.
When unknown or missing - we might see symbols like � or ▯ instead, or even inconsistent behavior due to differences in HTML parser implementations by different vendors.
For example, on Windows Chromium browsers the Standardized Variant suffix U+FE0E is buggy, and such symbols are still better accompanied by CSS i.e: font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol" to force that specific Font over the Colored Emoji (usually recognized as "Segoe UI Emoji") - which defies the purpose of U+FE0E in the first place - time will tell…
Scalable icon fonts
To circumvent problems related to unsupported characters - a viable solution is to use scalable icon font-sets like i.e:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<i class="fa fa-arrows-alt"></i>
<i class="fa fa-backward"></i>
<i class="fa fa-compress"></i>
<i class="fa fa-eject"></i>
<i class="fa fa-expand"></i>
<i class="fa fa-fast-backward"></i>
<i class="fa fa-fast-forward"></i>
<i class="fa fa-forward"></i>
<i class="fa fa-pause"></i>
<i class="fa fa-play"></i>
<i class="fa fa-play-circle"></i>
<i class="fa fa-play-circle-o"></i>
<i class="fa fa-step-backward"></i>
<i class="fa fa-step-forward"></i>
<i class="fa fa-stop"></i>
<i class="fa fa-youtube-play"></i>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet">
<i class="material-icons">pause</i>
<i class="material-icons">pause_circle_filled</i>
<i class="material-icons">pause_circle_outline</i>
<i class="material-icons">fast_forward</i>
<i class="material-icons">fast_rewind</i>
<i class="material-icons">fiber_manual_record</i>
<i class="material-icons">play_arrow</i>
<i class="material-icons">play_circle_filled</i>
<i class="material-icons">play_circle_outline</i>
<i class="material-icons">skip_next</i>
<i class="material-icons">skip_previous</i>
<i class="material-icons">replay</i>
<i class="material-icons">repeat</i>
<i class="material-icons">stop</i>
<i class="material-icons">loop</i>
<i class="material-icons">mic</i>
<i class="material-icons">volume_up</i>
<i class="material-icons">volume_down</i>
<i class="material-icons">volume_mute</i>
<i class="material-icons">volume_off</i>
and many other you can find in the wild; and last but not least, this really useful online tool: font-icons generator, Icomoon.io.
Solution 2 - Html
There are various symbols which could be considered adequate replacements, including:
-
| | - two standard (bolded) vertical bars.
-
▋▋ -
▋and another▋ -
▌▌ -
▌and another▌ -
▍▍ -
▍and another▍ -
▎▎ -
▎and another▎ -
❚❚ -
❚and another❚
I may have missed out one or two, but I think these are the better ones. Here's a list of symbols just in case.
Solution 3 - Html
Following may come in handy:
- ⏩
⏩ - ⏪
⏪ - ⏫
⓫ - ⏬
⏬ - ⏭
⏭ - ⏮
⏮ - ⏯
⏯ - ⏴
⏴ - ⏵
⏵ - ⏶
⏶ - ⏷
⏷ - ⏸
⏸ - ⏹
⏹ - ⏺
⏺
NOTE: apparently, these characters aren't very well supported in popular fonts, so if you plan to use it on the web, be sure to pick a webfont that supports these.
Solution 4 - Html
▐▐ is HTML and is made with this code: ▐▐.
Solution 5 - Html
I found it, it’s in the Miscellaneous Technical block. ⏸ (U+23F8)
Solution 6 - Html
I'm using ▐ ▌
HTML: ▐ ▌
CSS: \2590\A0\258C
Solution 7 - Html
If you want one that's a single character to match the right-facing triangle for "play," try Roman numeral 2. Ⅱ is Ⅱ in HTML. If you can put formatting tags around it, it looks really good in bold. Ⅱ is <b>Ⅱ</b> in HTML. This has much better support than the previously mentioned double vertical bar.
Solution 8 - Html
Modern browsers support 'DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR' (U+23F8), too:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/23f8/index.htm
For a music player it can act as a companion for 'BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER' (U+25BA) because they both share equal width and height making it perfect for a play/pause button:
Solution 9 - Html
There is no character encoded for use as a pause symbol, though various characters or combinations of characters may look more or less like a pause symbol, depending on font.
In a discussion in the public Unicode mailing list in 2005, a suggestion was made to use two copies of the U+275A HEAVY VERTICAL BAR character: ❚❚. But the adequacy of the result depends on font; for example, the glyph might have been designed so that the bars are too much apart. – The list discussion explains why a pause symbol had not been encoded, and this has not changed.
Thus, the best option is to use an image. If you need to use the symbol in text, it is best to create it in a suitably large size (say 60 by 60 pixels) and scale it down to text size with CSS (e.g., setting height: 0.8em on the img element).
Solution 10 - Html
The ISO 7000 / IEC 60417 Symbol for Pause; Interruption is #5111B. See Media_Controls
Solution 11 - Html
I found a good option similar to the others but exact with the span tag. You can apply
<span>▐</span>▐
with no spaces.
Solution 12 - Html
Simply II looks good! Other idea:
- Pause II: just two capital letters i, ie. roman two (font dependent, needs sans serif)
- Pause II: as before, but bold
- Pause ll: two small letters L
- Pause ||: two vertical bars
- Pause ": quote
- Pause ᐦ: 0x1426 Canadian syllabics final double short vertical strokes
- Pause ‖: 0x2016 double vertical line*
Partly inspried by https://shapecatcher.com.
Pause II: as before, but bold
Pause ll: two small letters L
Pause ||: two vertical bars
Pause ": quote
Pause ᐦ: 0x1426 Canadian syllabics final double short vertical strokes
Pause ‖: 0x2016 double vertical line