Is there an upside down caret character?

Question

I have to maintain a large number of classic ASP pages, many of which have tabular data with no sort capabilities at all. Whatever order the original developer used in the d

Answer 1

There is no upside down caret character, but you can easily rotate the caret with CSS. This is a simple solution that looks perfect. Press 'Run code snippet' to see it in action:

.upsidedown {
transform:rotate(180deg); 
-webkit-transform:rotate(180deg);
-o-transform:rotate(180deg);
-ms-transform:rotate(180deg);
}
.upsidedown.caret {
display: inline-block; 
position:relative; 
bottom: 0.15em;
}

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Please note the following...

• I did a little correction for the positioning of the caret, as it is normally high (thus low in the rotated version). You want to move it a little up. This 'little' is relative to the font-size, hence the 'em'. Depending on your font choice, you might want to fiddle with this to make it look good.
• This solution does not work in IE8. You should use a filter if you want IE8 support. IE8 support is not really required nor common in 2018.
• If you want to use this in combination with Twitter Bootstrap, please rename the class 'caret' to something else, like 'caret_down' (as it collides with a class name from Twitter Bootstrap).