How to Use Indian Rupee Symbol in Web Pages

The Indian rupee sign (sign: र; code: INR) is the currency sign for the Indian rupee, the official currency of India. Designed by D. Udaya Kumar, it was presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, following its selection through an “open” competition among Indian residents. Before its adoption, the most commonly used symbols for the rupee were Rs, Re or, if the text was in an Indian language, an appropriate abbreviation in that language. The new sign relates solely to the Indian rupee; other countries that use a rupee, such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal, still use the generic U+20A8 ₨ rupee sign character. The design resembles both the Devanagari letter "र" (ra) and the Latin capital letter "R", with a double horizontal line at the top.

Are you a webmaster/blogger trying to figure out how to use the Indian rupee symbol in your website and web pages? In this article, I will explain how to use Indian rupee symbol using HTML in webpages in four methods. The code approved by Unicode consortium for Indian rupee symbol is: U+20B9. Once all the computers and mobile phones in the world update to latest version of Unicode, everyone will be able to use Indian rupee symbol just like $ or € symbols. Until all computers in the world get updated with unicode 6.0, we will be left with few options to type, display and print Indian rupee symbol in HTML web pages.

Method 1: Use stylesheet from WebRupee
webrupee.com has provided a CSS styleseet which you can load from any webpages to display rupee symbol in your webpages. To use rupee symbol, follow the below steps:
Copy and paste the following code in the HEAD area of your HTML page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cdn.webrupee.com/font" />

Just adding the above stylesheet reference in the webpage will not display rupee symbol automatically anywhere. In order to show the rupee symbol, you have to use the following HTML in each place you want to display the symbol:

<span class="WebRupee">Rs</span>

Method 2: Using Javascript from WebRupee
If you don't want to type the above code everywhere, you may use the Javascript from WebRupee. If you add the below script reference in the HEAD area of your webpage, all uses of "Rs." or "Rs" will be converted to Indian rupee symbol.

<script src="http://cdn.webrupee.com/js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Method 3: Using Web Font:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'rupee';
    src: url('rupee_foradian-1-webfont.eot');
    src: local('☺'), 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    format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

Declare it wherever required like this:

<span style="font-family:rupee;font-size:20px">R</span>

Method 4: Simply use this HTML Rupee symbol code

<del>&#2352;</del>