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title: "Tick symbol in HTML/XHTML"
description: "Tick symbol in HTML/XHTML"
author: "Anonymous User"
published: 2013-09-25
updated: 2013-09-25
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1532/tick-symbol-in-html-xhtml
category: "html5"
tags: ["html5"]
reading_time: 1 minute
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# Tick symbol in HTML/XHTML
We need to display a tick symbol (✓ or ✔) within an [internal](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/773/describe-the-accessibility-modifier-protected-internal) [web app](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/74221/tips-on-real-estate-web-app-development) and would ideally like to avoid using an image.
Has to work [starting](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/12024/things-you-need-to-know-when-starting-your-own-business) with IE 6.0.2900 on a XP box, ideally we need it be cross-[browser](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/155254/which-is-the-best-internet-browser) (IE + recent [versions](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49863/list-the-versions-of-mac-os-x) of FF).
The following displays boxes although sets browser [encoding](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/752/how-is-encoding-handled-in-ajax) to UTF-8 (META works nicely and not the issue). The [default](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/12771/what-is-the-importance-of-default-resources) font is Times New Roman (might be an issue, but trying Lucida Sans [Unicode](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/49/unicode-character-string-datatypes) doesn't help and I don't have neither Arial Unicode MS, nor Lucida Grande installed).
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✓ ✔Any help appreciated.The following works under IE 6.0 and IE 7: ü
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I would appreciate [if someone](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/99016/is-there-any-device-that-can-detect-if-someone-opens-your-backpack) could check under FF on [Windows](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/311752/how-to-install-and-use-the-google-wifi-software-on-a-windows-or-mac-computer). I am pretty sure it won't work on a non Windows box.
## Replies
### Reply by Sumit Kesarwani
Hi Pravesh,
Why don't you use the HTML input checkbox element in read only mode
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I assume this will work on all browsers.
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