HTML for the Pause symbol in audio and video control

Question

I\'m trying to find the Unicode symbol to make a button display the Unicode pause symbol. I was able to find that the Unicode play symbol is ► but I\'m

Answer 1

Unicode Standard for Media Control Symbols

Pause: ⏸︎

The Unicode Standard 13.0 (update 2020) provides the Miscellaneous Technical glyphs in the HEX range 2300–23FF

Miscellaneous Technical

Given the extensive Unicode 13.0 documentation, some of the glyphs we can associate to common Media control symbols would be as following:

Keyboard and UI symbols

23CF ⏏︎ Eject media

User interface symbols

23E9 ⏩︎ fast forward
23EA ⏪︎ rewind, fast backwards
23EB ⏫︎ fast increase
23EC ⏬︎ fast decrease
23ED ⏭︎ skip to end, next
23EE ⏮︎ skip to start, previous
23EF ⏯︎ play/pause toggle
23F1 ⏱︎ stopwatch
23F2 ⏲︎ timer clock
23F3 ⏳︎ hourglass
23F4 ⏴︎ reverse, back
23F5 ⏵︎ forward, next, play
23F6 ⏶︎ increase
23F7 ⏷︎ decrease
23F8 ⏸︎ pause
23F9 ⏹︎ stop
23FA ⏺︎ record

Power symbols from ISO 7000:2012

23FB ⏻︎ standby/power
23FC ⏼︎ power on/off
23FD ⏽︎ power on
2B58 ⭘︎ power off

Power symbol from IEEE 1621-2004

23FE ⏾︎ power sleep

Use on the Web:

A file must be saved using UTF-8 encoding without BOM (which in most development environments is set by default) in order to instruct the parser how to transform the bytes into characters correctly. should be used immediately after in a HTML file, and make sure the correct HTTP headers Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 are set.

Examples:

HTML

⏩ Pictograph 
⏩︎ Standardized Variant

CSS

.icon-ff:before { content: "\23E9" }
.icon-ff--standard:before { content: "\23E9\FE0E" }

JavaScript

EL_iconFF.textContent = "\u23E9";
EL_iconFF_standard.textContent = "\u23E9\uFE0E"

Standardized variant

To prevent a glyph from being "color-emojified" ⏩︎ / ⏩ append the code U+FE0E Text Presentation Selector to request a Standardized variant: (example: ⏩︎)

Inconsistencies

Characters in the Unicode range are susceptible to the font-family environment they are used, application, browser, OS, platform.
When unknown or missing - we might see symbols like � or ▯ instead, or even inconsistent behavior due to differences in HTML parser implementations by different vendors.
For example, on Windows Chromium browsers the Standardized Variant suffix U+FE0E is buggy, and such symbols are still better accompanied by CSS i.e: font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol" to force that specific Font over the Colored Emoji (usually recognized as "Segoe UI Emoji") - which defies the purpose of U+FE0E in the first place - time will tell…

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Scalable icon fonts

To circumvent problems related to unsupported characters - a viable solution is to use scalable icon font-sets like i.e:

Font Awesome

Google Icons

pause
pause_circle_filled
pause_circle_outline
fast_forward
fast_rewind
fiber_manual_record
play_arrow
play_circle_filled
play_circle_outline
skip_next
skip_previous
replay
repeat
stop
loop
mic
volume_up
volume_down
volume_mute
volume_off

and many other you can find in the wild; and last but not least, this really useful online tool: font-icons generator, Icomoon.io.

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