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Escape character
An escape character is a character that causes one or more characters that follow it to be interpreted differently. This forms an escape sequence , which is often used to represent a character that has an alternative meaning when printed literally, such as the quote character in a string literal. Escape sequences can have other usages too, especially in regular expressions.
- In JavaScript regexes, string literals, and identifiers, we can use the backslash (
\) to escape characters like\',\",\u0026, etc. - In CSS identifiers, we can use the backslash (
\) to escape characters like\\,\n,\26, etc. See escape characters for more information. - In HTML text content and attribute values, we can use character references like
<,<, or<. - In URLs, we can use the percent sign (
%) to escape characters like%20,%3C,%3E, etc.
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See also
- Related glossary terms:
- Escape character on Wikipedia
- Escape sequence on Wikipedia