What is this slash in class=\\"

HTML & CSS
1

Hi guys,

I can’t find the proper explanation for this script:

$output = “<ol class=\“category\”>”;

what does this slash do?

Thanks.

2

It’s an ‘escape character’. Because a " has special meaning in most programming languages (ie start/end of text string), when you want to include a " in that text string, you need some way to tell the computer ‘No, this really is a ", it isn’t the end of the string’, and you do that by putting a \ before it.

3

this should be added in other definitions. Awesome. Thanks! :slight_smile: