Unicode character for "X" cancel / close?

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Leonti picture Leonti · Mar 18, 2011 · Viewed 184k times · Source

I want to create a close button using CSS only.

I'm sure I'm not the first to do this, so does anyone know which font has an 'x' the same width as height, so that it can be used cross-browser to look like a close button?

Answer

eipark picture eipark · Feb 8, 2012

✖ works really well. The HTML code is ✖.

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