What keyboard button corresponds to...

[Big Byte]

...the symbol that looks like a side view of an escalator going down and has a dash next to the top of it? I can't get a picture of it, but, for example, the show/hide equalizer in iTunes uses it. Thanks.

 

[Mustang Maniac]

option key

That would be the option/alt key. Not sure why the symbol looks like that.

Jeff

 

[Big Byte]

That would be the option/alt key. Not sure why the symbol looks like that.

Jeff

I'm not sure, either, but thanks for the information.

 

[BobZune]

That would be the option/alt key. Not sure why the symbol looks like that.

Jeff

Wikipedia says:

Apple commonly uses the symbol ⌥ (U+2325, 8997 in decimal) to represent the option key. This symbol, originating on the Apple Lisa, represented the pull-out plastic card situated under the Lisa keyboard.