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

An upside-down circumflex is called a caron, or a háček.

It has an HTML entity in the TADS Latin-2 extension to HTML: ˇ and looks like this: ˇ which unfortunately doesn't display in the same size/proportion as the ^ caret.

Or you can use the unicode U+30C.

Answer 2

So I wanted the caret exactly as in OWA, so I downloaded office365icons.woff from https://owa.example.com/owa/prem/15.1.1913.10/resources/styles/fonts/office365icons.woff (have to be logged in to do it, so did it through browser) and then, copying the boiled-down style from the website:

  @font-face {
      font-family: 'Office365Icons';
      src: url('/fonts/office365icons.woff') format('woff');
      font-weight: normal;
      font-style: normal;
  }

  span.o-icon {
      font-family: 'Office365Icons';
      font-size: 14pt;
      line-height: 21px;
      color: #666;
  }

And finally:

<span class="o-icon">&#xe088;</span>

Answer 3

You might consider using Font Awesome instead of using the unicode or other icons

The code can be as simple as (a) including font-awesome e.g. <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"> (b) making a button such as <button><i class="fa fa-arrow-down"></i></button>

Answer 4

If you are needing font-awesome for React Apps then React Icons is a very good resource and very easy to implement. It includes a lot more libraries than just font-awesome.

Answer 5

I did subscript capital & bolded V. It works perfectly (although it takes some effort, if it needs to be done repetitively)

Syntax:

<sub><strong>v</strong></sub>

Output:
_v