Squiggly Bracket on Keyboard

How do you use the squilly bracket icon?

Here are squilly brackets { }

Alternatively referred to as an open brace, close brace, and curly brackets.

Squilly brackets are found on the same keys as the open bracket and close bracket on US keyboards.

Where are the curly bracket keys on the keyboard?

Below is an overview of a computer keyboard with the open curly bracket and close curly bracket keys highlighted in blue.



How to Create an Open and Close Curly Bracket

Creating the "{" and "}" Symbols on a U.S. Keyboard

On English keyboards, the open bracket and close bracket are on the same key as the square brackets keys close to the Enter key.

To get a curly bracket, press and hold the Shift key, then press the { or } key.

Creating the "{" and "}" Symbol on a Smartphone or Tablet

To create a curly bracket a smartphone or tablet, open the keyboard, go into the numbers (123), then (#+=) or symbols (sym), and tap the "{" or "}" symbol.

How are Curly Brackets Used?

These keys are most commonly used in curly bracket programming languages such as C, Java, Perl, and PHP to enclose groups of statements or for a block of code.

What are the Other Symbols on the Curly Bracket Keys?

On U.S. keyboards, the { and } (curly bracket) keys are shared with the ] or [ or (square bracket) keys. To create the curly bracket, hold down the Shift key while also pressing the { or } key.
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Computer keyboard key explanations.
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Command → Apple Mac computers have a command key.
Menu → PC keyboards also have a Menu key that looks like an cursor pointing to a menu.
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F1 - F12 See links below for Information about the F1 through F12 keyboard keys.
F13 - F24 See links below for Information about the F13 through F24 keyboard keys.
Tab → Tab key
Caps lock → Caps lock key
Shift → Shift key
Ctrl → Ctrl (Control) key
Fn → Fn (Function) key
Alt → Alt (Alternate) key (PC Only; Mac users have Option key)
Spacebar → Spacebar key
Arrows → Up, Down, Left, Right Arrow keys
Back Space → Back space (or Backspace) key
Delete → Delete or Del key
Enter → Enter key
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Scroll lock → Scroll lock key
Pause → Pause key
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Page up → Page up or pg up key
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End → End key
Num Lock → Num Lock key
~ Tilde
` Acute, Back quote, grave, grave accent, left quote, open quote, or a push
! Exclamation mark, Exclamation point, or Bang
@ Ampersat, Arobase, Asperand, At, or At symbol
# Octothorpe, Number, Pound, sharp, or Hash
£ Pounds Sterling or Pound symbol
€ Euro
$ Dollar sign or generic currency
¢ Cent sign
¥ Chinese Yuan
§ Micro or Section
% Percent
° Degree
^ Caret or Circumflex
& Ampersand, Epershand, or And
* Asterisk and sometimes referred to as star.
( Open parenthesis
) Close parenthesis
- Hyphen, Minus or Dash
_ Underscore
+ Plus
= Equals
{ Open Brace, squiggly brackets, or curly bracket
} Close Brace, squiggly brackets, or curly bracket
Open bracket
Close bracket
| Pipe, Or, or Vertical bar
\ Backslash or Reverse Solidus
/ Forward slash, Solidus,

Virgule, or Whack
: Colon
; Semicolon
" Quote, Quotation mark, or Inverted commas
' Apostrophe or Single Quote
< Less Than or Angle brackets
> Greater Than or Angle brackets
, Comma
. Period, dot or Full Stop
? Question Mark

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