What is the unicode character for the close symbol used by Twitter bootstrap?

Question

Just curious, because I just realized it wasn't an actual "x" (annoying how long that took to figure out).

Answer 1

The multiplication sign ( × ) was a bit too small for what I wanted and increasing the font size broke other things, so I found these larger alternatives:

✕ Multiplication X (U+2715)

• Decimal HTML entity: ✕
• Hex HTML entity: ✕

✖ Heavy Multiplication X (U+2716)

• Decimal HTML entity: ✖
• Hex HTML entity: ✖

❌ Cross Mark (U+274C)

• Decimal HTML entity: ❌
• Hex HTML entity: ❌

I hope these will save somebody some time.

Answer 2

It uses ×.

You can use the following to obtain the desired information about any character:

$ perl -Mcharnames=:full -CA -e'    printf("U+%04X %s\n", $_, charnames::viacode($_))       for unpack "W*", $ARGV[0]; ' × U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN 

If you're going to use it in HTML, you can encode it as follows:

$ perl -MHTML::Entities -CA -e'    CORE::say encode_entities($ARGV[0]); ' × × 

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Notes:

• The above programs expect the argument to be encoded using UTF-8.
• The line breaks can be removed to make true one-liners.