What's the name for hyphen-separated case?

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lms picture lms · Jun 30, 2012 · Viewed 167.1k times · Source

This is PascalCase: SomeSymbol

This is camelCase: someSymbol

This is snake_case: some_symbol

So my questions is whether there is a widely accepted name for this: some-symbol? It's commonly used in url's.

Answer

jwfearn picture jwfearn · Sep 5, 2012

It's referred to as kebab-case. See lodash docs.

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