[html] What is the 
 character?

What's the meaning of this char?

This question is related to html xml

The answer is


It's the ASCII/UTF code for LF (0A) - Unix-based systems are using it as the newline character, while Windows uses the CR-LF PAIR (OD0A).


It's a linefeed character. How you use it would be up to you.



 is the HTML representation in hex of a line feed character. It represents a new line on Unix and Unix-like (for example) operating systems.

You can find a list of such characters at (for example) http://la.remifa.so/unicode/latin1.html


This is the ASCII format.

Please consider that:

Some data (like URLs) can be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since data often contain characters outside the ASCII set, so it has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.

To find it yourself, you can visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII, there you can find big tables of characters. The one you are looking is in Control Characters table.

Digging to table you can find

Oct Dec Hex Name 012 10 0A Line Feed

In the html file you can use Dec and Hex representation of charters

The Dec is represented with 


The Hex is represented with &#x0A (or you can omit the leading zero &#xA)

There is a good converter at https://r12a.github.io/apps/conversion/ .


It is the equivalent to \n -> LF (Line Feed).

Sometimes it is used in HTML and JavaScript. Otherwise in .NET environments, use Environment.NewLine.