HTML Entity Detail

HTML Entity - Soft Hyphen (discretionary Hyphen)

Soft Hyphen (discretionary Hyphen) is a punctuation marks and special text formatting characters. This HTML entity enables web developers to display this character reliably across all browsers without encoding issues.

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Unicode

U+00AD

HTML entity

CSS code

\00AD

Usage Examples

Use this HTML entity in professional typography for dashes, ellipsis, and special punctuation. For example, — for em-dash, … for ellipsis.

Soft Hyphen (discretionary Hyphen)

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Category: Punctuation Marks

Unicode	`U+00AD`
Hex Code	``
HTML Code	``
HTML Entity	``
CSS Code	`\00AD`
Windows Shortcut	`Strg -`
Mac Shortcut	`⌘- (*)`

HTML code example

<span>&#173;</span>

CSS code example

span {
    content : "\00AD";
}

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