Use CSS's :after pseudo-selector to insert hexadecimal values of html entities into the document. Less markup. More awesome.

entities.css

/* Daniel Ott
 * entities.css
 * 31 January 2011
 *
 * Adding arrows to thinks makes them more clickable. Right?
 * Use CSS's :after pseudo-selector to insert hexadecimal values
 * of html entities into the document. Less markup. More awesome.
 */
 
.add-an-arrow:after {
  content:'\00a0\25b8'; /*  ▸ in Hexadecimal */
}

/*-----------------------------------------------
A cheat sheet of entities I've used
-------------------------------------------------

Entity    Hexcode   Description
     \00a0     A space
◀   \25c0     Left arrow with no tail.
▸   \25b8     Right arrow with no tail.
▾   \25be     Down arrow with no tail.
←    \2190     Left arrow with a tail.
→    \2192     Right arrow with a tail.

-----------------------------------------------*/

Lovely, thanks for this.

Thanks so much.

If you want an up arrow with no tail:

Entity Hexcode Description
▲ \25b4 Up arrow with no tail.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23230580/what-is-the-up-pointing-version-of-u25be

This is great. Exactly what I needed