In computing, form feed is one of control characters in ASCII.  It forces the printer to eject the current page and to continue printing at the top of another. The form feed character code is defined as 12 in decimal and 0C in hexadecimal. In the C programming language (and other languages derived from C), the form feed character may be represented as character|'\f'" target="_blank" >^*

On CRT terminals this character is not used, although it sometimes is made equivalent to line feed). Theoretically it could be used to clear the screen, but this is rarely implemented. Example of implementations include the shell prompts of bash and tcsh.

Form feed is seldom used when programming with modern printers in modern operating environments like Windows, Unix, or Mac OS. Instead, form feeds are generated by having the printing program call a form feed API function. For example, when printing using the .NET Framework, the PrintPageEventArgs.HasMorePages property is used to indicate a form feed is desired.

Control characters