What does / and _ mean in html?

Question

What does _ and / mean in HTML? I am trying to add an image to my site and would like to know what those functions do?

I've tried looking through google for the answer.

Answer 1

(I initially wrote this answer thinking you were asking about javascript instead of html; just in case I've included both here because, eh, why not.)

HTML

_ has no specific meaning, it's just a letter.

/ is used in file paths (such as URLs) to denote a change in directory. So <img src="/foo/bar/baz.gif"> would find an image named "baz.gif" inside a directory named "bar" inside a directory named "foo", at the root level of the website. For more detail, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_URL

Javascript

As in HTML, _ is just a character; it has no specific meaning in javascript. It is used by a common utility library named " underscore ", and a competing library named " lodash "; if you're seeing this in js code it's probably including one of those libraries. (This is similar to how $ is commonly used for jQuery.)

/ does have a specific meaning in javascript; it's used to denote a regular expression , or as the "division" symbol for math.