ASCII 8

Backspace (BS)

Control character

Moves cursor back one column. Sent by the Backspace key on many terminals.

All encodings at a glance

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(8); // "BS"
8.toString(16); // "08"

Python

chr(8)           # control char BS
ord(chr(8))      # 8
hex(8)           # '0x08'

HTML

&#8;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

5 — ENQ

Enquiry

6 — ACK

Acknowledge

7 — BEL

Bell

9 — HT

Horizontal Tab

10 — LF

Line Feed

11 — VT

Vertical Tab