In your HTML documents, you'll often need to make a list of items. And you can use bullet points for this purpose.
You can show bullet points with the Unicode character (or entity) for bullet points.
In this article, I will show you the Unicode and HTML entities for showing bullet points on a web page.
Towards the end of this article, I will also show you the 5-key combinations with which you can type a big dot symbol.
The Unicode and HTML Entities for Bullet Points
The Unicode character for showing the dot symbol or bullet point is U+2022
.
But to use this Unicode correctly, remove the U+
and replace it with ampersand (&
), pound sign (#
), and x
. Then type the 2022 number in, and then add a semi-colon. So, it becomes •
.
It'll look like this:
<h1>Languages of the web</h1>
<h3>• HTML</h3>
<h3>• CSS</h3>
<h3>• JavaScript</h3>
<h3>• PHP</h3>
Apart from the •
Unicode character, you can also use •
and •
HTML entitles to show bullets or dot symbols on the web page.
<h1>Languages of the web</h1>
<h3>• HTML</h3>
<h3>• CSS</h3>
<h3>• JavaScript</h3>
<h3>• PHP</h3>
The output remains the same:
The Keyboard Shortcut for Typing a Dot Symbol
To type the dot symbol on your keyboard, turn on the numeric keypad by pressing NumLk
, hold Alt
and press the 0
, 1
, 4
, and 9
keys in succession.
If you don’t type the numbers with the numeric keypad, the dot symbol will not show.
Thank you for reading!